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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
29function [output, status] = perl (script = "-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.
36 && ((nargin != 1 && iscellstr (varargin))
37 || (nargin == 1 && ! isempty (script))))
38 [status, output] = system (cstrcat ("perl ", script,
39 sprintf (" %s", varargin{:})));
41 error ("perl: invalid arguments");
