Running External Perl Script

[stonefish]

Hello,
I wish to run an external perl script from one of my php pages. To run the script from the command prompt I use

text_cat.pl -l "This is some sample text"

How do I run this from a php script?? I have used shell_exec but this loads an external command prompt window, is there a way to hide this window??

Thanks

[theelectricwiz]

exec('text_cat.pl -l "This is some sample text"');

http://nz.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php