I often use the quick and dirty approach of just using back-tics to make a system call to my other perl script (or program) and grab its output for my own program
like this: #!/usr/bin/perl -w #my first script #initialize a variable to pass $x="foo"; #call 'secondScript.pl' with "foo" as an arg $result = `perl secondScript.pl $x`; print $result; ################################### #!/usr/bin/perl -w #secondScript.pl print shift()."bar"; ##################################### So, my final result is "foobar" You can call any script or outside program this way. If you don't care about the return result of your program, you could use "exec()" or, if you need to make sure the program exited sucesfully and you want to fork a new process for it, use "system()" run 'perldoc -f system' and 'perldoc -f exec' for details. -peter -----Original Message----- From: debraj bhattacharyya [mailto:debraj_rec@;sify.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 3:26 AM To: Olympio Raymond Cc: beginners Subject: Re: running a perl script in an other one ? hi You can definitely connect two perl scripts.One example is passing the scriptname of one program as argument to the second one.But the same thing can be very easily done with the help of functions as in modular programming. do get back if i am not clear thanx raj ____________________________________________________________ Olympio Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi everybody, > Im a new in perl programming so i hope you wont find my question too > stupid. I have to run a some user-defined functions, but i dont want to > > include them in only one script. So, is it possible to run a perl script > > into an other one ? > Thanks > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------- Sify Mail - now with Anti-virus protection powered by Trend Micro, USA. Know more at http://mail.sify.com Want to get into IIM? Take the Sify Mock CAT now! http://education.sify.com/mockcat -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
