Newbie question

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[Originally posted by nscript on 2006-11-12 12:55:27-08]

Hi, I have never come across Perl before (I am using Windows XP) so please excuse my rather basic questions. I am also unfamiliar with a lot of the terminology used in the documentation.

I have managed to install ActivePerl (5.8.8.817) and have unpacked the exiftool application into my "c:\Program Files\Image-ExifTool-6.55\" folder.

I can get exiftool to display the exif data for an image by running the following from the Windows command prompt "perl exiftool.pl d:/testfolder/testimage.jpg". As soon as the exiftool has finished displaying the exif data it goes back to the command prompt.

Please can you describe how to use the "Image::ExifTool" application - I understand that this is different to the command line version?

Regards... nscript

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2006-11-13 01:04:25-08]

Hi,

Using the Image::ExifTool libraries allows you to incorporate
the ExifTool functionality into your Perl programs.  But it
sounds like you aren't a Perl programmer, so using the
'exiftool' application interface is probably what you want
to do.