can't you set the environmental variables for the parent shell
by running a script as a . or here file?
-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Pang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sep 27, 2007 10:02 AM
>To: vikram vikram vikram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: beginners@perl.org
>Subject: Re: How to set environment variable
>
>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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