Calling a perl script from stored procedure

Can anyone tell me how to call/run a perl script from a stored procedure? If you have a sample code, please include it.
Thanks in advance

If you have a web server setup that runs perl, you can do this by using the utl_http package...Here is some code I use to run a perl script and print the results to a web page on our site.
The in_URL parameter is the address of the perl code(i.e. http://website/path/perlscript?param1=value1&param2=value2 etc)
PROCEDURE call_perl(in_URL VARCHAR2) IS
/* This is setup to allow a perl program to be submitted as a batch program
using the standard Portal batch program.
Sometimes these jobs take a long time to run, so the timeout value must
be set to a large value. The default timeout is 60 seconds, which is not long enough. */
req utl_http.req;
resp utl_http.resp;
value VARCHAR2(1024);
BEGIN
req := utl_http.begin_request(replace(utl_url.escape(replace(in_URL,'%3A',':')),CHR(13)));
utl_http.set_transfer_timeout(req, 18000); -- Set timeout to 5 hours for this specific request.
resp := utl_http.get_response(req);
LOOP
utl_http.read_line(resp, value, TRUE);
htp.p(value);
END LOOP;
utl_http.end_response(resp);
EXCEPTION WHEN utl_http.end_of_body THEN
utl_http.end_response(resp);
WHEN utl_http.init_failed THEN
htp.p('INIT FAILED');
WHEN utl_http.request_failed THEN
htp.p('REQUEST FAILED');
htp.p(NVL(utl_http.get_detailed_sqlerrm,' No more detail available.'));
END;
If you don't have a web server setup, I don't know offhand how you could do this.
Laurel

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