In ActivePerl on Windows, how do I open a browser to some URL?
In Python, there is webbrowser.open(url), but I can’t seem to find the Perl equivalent.
In ActivePerl on Windows, how do I open a browser to some URL? In
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In ActivePerl on Windows, how do I open a browser to some URL?
In Python, there is webbrowser.open(url), but I can’t seem to find the Perl equivalent.
Not sure if there’s a ‘right’ way to do it, but this should work:
‘start’ is a windows command that will use whatever the associated program is to open the argument. So as long as $url looks like a URL (make sure it starts with http(s)://), it should start up the browser.