1 ## Copyright (C) 2008-2012 Julian Schnidder
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20 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {[@var{output}, @var{status}] =} perl (@var{scriptfile})
21 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {[@var{output}, @var{status}] =} perl (@var{scriptfile}, @var{argument1}, @var{argument2}, @dots{})
22 ## Invoke Perl script @var{scriptfile} with possibly a list of
23 ## command line arguments.
24 ## Returns output in @var{output} and status
29 function [output, status] = perl (scriptfile = "-e ''", varargin)
31 ## VARARGIN is intialized to {}(1x0) if no additional arguments are
32 ## supplied, so there is no need to check for it, or provide an
33 ## initial value in the argument list of the function definition.
35 if (ischar (scriptfile)
36 && ((nargin != 1 && iscellstr (varargin))
37 || (nargin == 1 && ! isempty (scriptfile))))
38 [status, output] = system (cstrcat ("perl ", scriptfile,
39 sprintf (" %s", varargin{:})));
41 error ("perl: invalid arguments");