Userform to Shell function.

[ITboy]

I've got a Userform in Excel where by I take in 5 values...Section, date,time,no.of periods and mins(in integer) from textboxes. When I get this values and click a command button, my program goes thru many processes after which I'm calling a Shell func(NOT in the Form Module but a normal module called ShellFunc). My Shelled program is a perl program that creates txt files. In order to do tat, I need to pass in 5 arguments when running the perl program.How to pass in the values taken from the userform to the Shell function.By the way,my shell program is not working too.

Result = ShellExecute(gScr_hDC, "Open", "c:\windows\desktop\CreateAct\CreateActivity.pl", " 2,20/03/2003 ,13:15:00,8 ,30", "C:\", gSW_SHOWNORMAL) 

2(section),20/03/2003(date) 13:15:00(time), 8(no.of periods),30(interval)
It'll b gd if i can get help on that too..PLs help.Thanks alot for ur help.