help calling a perl script from php

[smilingfrog]

I have a web program written in PHP. I am trying to write a script that will strip data out of an HTML page and return formatted data that the PHP can use. Because of the complexity of the data extraction, I have written the script in perl.

What I need to do now is upload an HTML file and pass that to the perl script, and use the returned data in the PHP program.

Problem is, I don't know how to pass the file to the script. Can anyone help?

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[ghostdog74]

PHP has many functions that can deal with HTML, eg strip_tags() , htmlentities , etc etc...plus many string manipulations functions including regex. there is no need to do it in Perl.