use Perl

• I may be wrong... (Score:1)

  by sigzero (5768)

  I read in some blog discussion or newsgroup that 'cls' is not really a callable command in Windows, it is a hack. Which is why it doesn't work.

  I will try and remember the conversation...
  • Re:I may be wrong... (Score:1)

    by sigzero (5768)

    Or maybe I don't understand his problem...

    If I run:

    $clear = "cls";
    system($clear);

    That clears my screen. So maybe I don't know his problem.
    • Re:I may be wrong... (Score:1)

      by sigzero (5768)

      I think this is it. 'cls' is not a program like cls.exe or cls.com but it is a command available to the CMD environment shell. Therefore, you cannot run it with `cls` because Windows doesn't know what to do with that.

      You have to do something like: `cmd /c cls`
• Win32::Console or Term::InKey (Score:1)

  by runrig (3385)

  The $x = `cls` trick doesn't work on Windows, but there's Win32::Console, which is non-portable and a little awkward, but someone wrapped the clear screen function into a Unix/Windows portable module, Term::InKey [cpan.org].
• RE: faq.perl.org being borked (Score:1)

  by stu42j (6348)

  http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq.html [perl.org]
• Bravo! (Score:1)

  by n1vux (1492)

  Yeah Merlyn!

  --
  Bill
  # I had a sig when sigs were cool
  use Sig;