[erlang-questions] Executing an Erlang function from Perl

[Anders Nygren]

2008/9/5 Sebastian Bello <sebastian.bello@REDACTED>:
> Thanks Bengt and Chandru.
> An additional question: if I know the full path to a .beam file, and that
> path has no been added with a -pa for example, what would be the way to
> execute a function of that module?
>     Sebastian-

Sebastian

Dir = filename:dirname(Beam),
code:addpatha(Dir)

/Anders

>
> Chandru escribió:
>
> 2008/9/3 Sebastian Bello <sebastian.bello@REDACTED>
>>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I need to execute an Erlang function from within Perl code, what do you
>> suggest?
>> Thanks,
>>    Sebastian-
>
> Try 'erl -man erl_call'
>
> Extract from the man page:
>
> NAME
>        erl_call - Call/Start a Distributed Erlang Node
>
> DESCRIPTION
>        erl_call  makes  it  possible  to  start and/or communicate with a
> dis-
>        tributed Erlang node. It is built upon the erl_interface library as
> an
>        example  application.  Its  purpose  is  to use an Unix shell script
> to
>        interact with a distributed Erlang node. It performs all
> communication
>        with  the Erlang rex server, using the standard Erlang RPC facility.
> It
>        does not require any special software to be run at  the  Erlang
> target
>        node.
>
>        The main use is to either start a distributed Erlang node or to make
> an
>        ordinary function call. However, it is also possible to pipe an
> Erlang
>        module  to  erl_call  and  have  it  compiled, or to pipe a sequence
> of
>        Erlang expressions to be evaluated (similar to the Erlang shell).
>
>        Options, which cause stdin to be read, can be used  with  advantage
> as
>        scripts  from within (Unix) shell scripts. Another nice use of
> erl_call
>        could be from (http) CGI-bin scripts.
>
>
>
>
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