PERL Beginners - Controlling external I/O with Perl

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Controlling external I/O with Perl

Joseph L. Casale

2008-01-13, 7:01 pm

I have a need at work to monitor external I/O from a PC. Basically I need t=
o turn outputs on and off and monitor some various inputs for different ran=
ges. Since I know *some* Perl and the PC won't be doing anything else I am =
not worried about making sure the code is enterprise scalable. Is there any=
direction anyone can point me to start my reading into such a requirement?=
Additionally if anyone knows of any external hardware with a Perl API that=
exists, that would be great!

Thanks for any comments!
jlc

Ken Foskey

2008-01-13, 7:01 pm

On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 10:28 -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> I have a need at work to monitor external I/O from a PC. Basically I
> need to turn outputs on and off and monitor some various inputs for
> different ranges. Since I know *some* Perl and the PC won't be doing
> anything else I am not worried about making sure the code is
> enterprise scalable. Is there any direction anyone can point me to
> start my reading into such a requirement? Additionally if anyone knows
> of any external hardware with a Perl API that exists, that would be
> great!

There are multiple solutions to this.

Are you using Windows or Unix or other operating system.

What type of IO are you using? Serial, parrallel, etc.

The answers will probably come from http://search.cpan.org

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Ken Foskey
FOSS developer

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