On 10 Jul 2001 20:24:45 +0200, P. Schaub wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I am calling a perl script within another perl script.
> What is the best way to pass arguments to the second one ?
> Is it possible to pass arrays and hashs (or at least refs) ?
> So far I am calling the second script like
> @result=`script2.pl $arg1 $arg2 $arg3`
> but I guess this is quite ugly.
>
> any help welcome
>
<snip />
Well, backticks do variable interpolation (and hence array
interpolation) so you could say:
@result=`script2.pl @ARGV`;
Be careful with this though, if individual elements of the array have
spaces then they will be treated as seperate options in script2.pl.
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