I am running a perl script from vb. OK but I need to get access to the exit code from the perl script in the calling vb program. I can do it a long winded way via a batch file but I feel i'm missing something obvious. Any help Mucho Gratious

hai, How to write perl code in vba editor. pls explain with example. provide material for this. any one is thr? Regards Sara

sorry forgot my login so reregistered THIS is Dennis Murrell example: IN VB code > return = shell "perl.exe somescript.txt" > end code return seems NOT to be the exit value from Perl ir appears to be a process ID I make it work by the following in a .bat file > del ProgErr.txt del ProgOK.txt perl.exe somescript.txt if errorlevel 1 goto ERR if errorlevel 0 goto OK ERR: echo err > ProgErr.txt goto END OK: echo ok > ProgOK.txt END: > In VB shell the.bat then test for ProgErr.txt and progOK.txt any help Mucho Gratious

Here's an example from MSDN. Dim procID As Integer Dim newProc As Diagnostics.Process newProc = Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.exe") procID = newProc.Id newProc.WaitForExit() Dim procEC As Integer = -1 If newProc.HasExited Then procEC = newProc.ExitCode End If MsgBox("Process with ID " & CStr(ProcID) & _ " terminated with exit code " & CStr(procEC)) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...