27 Sep 2007 14:47:42 -0000, vikram vikram vikram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am new to perl. I am using "Active Perl-5.8.8"
>
> I want to set environment variable in a perl script
>
> Ex - #!/usr/bin/perl
> $ENV{HAI} = "hai";
>
>
> and want to display the contents of the environment
> variable in the command line after executing the script.
>
> But it is not displaying the contents if i give
> echo $HAI
>
Hi,
When you start to run a perl program,a separate process is
started,which is different from your current shell process.So you
can't set the environment variables from another process to the
current shell process.
you can do a test,
$ perl -MData::Dumper -e '$ENV{TEST}=1;print Dumper \%ENV'
this would print what you want.
but,
$ echo $TEST
will get nothing.
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