Executing external perl scripts

[Ari B Kahn]

I'm running a perl CGI script that needs to execute another external perl
script on the same machine.  I would like to see the screen output of this
external script as well. What is a good way to do this?

I was trying 
system ("/Users/username/perl_dir/perl_script --flags other_arguments");

It doesn't seem to work though.

Thanks,

Ari