First of, maybe this should go to macperl-anyperl, as technically I'm doing this under Windows.
However, my question is not Windows specific. I have a C program that I've embedded perl into, to provide some advanced configuration and data processing. I didn't want to dig around and find some strange regex library and match it with some other hash table library, nor code my own. So embedding perl seemed the way to go. It works. So that's the good part. However, for what I'm doing I need a persistant interpreter that uses a dynamic configuration. Here's how I attempted to approach this: At program startup, create a persistant interpreter Write a perl sub that uses 'require' to reload the configuration (as the configuration is stored as a perl hash). Repeatedly call this perl sub using call_pv. At program shut down, destroy the perl interpreter. Unfortunately, the configuration does not seem to get reloaded every time I call my sub, it only seems to get reloaded when I start my program up. I'm using perl_parse to load in the script file at startup. Should I be calling perl_parse every time, before I use call_pv? I didn't want to do that, as I also need to maintain some persistant memory between calls to my sub, and was concerned that perl_parse would blow them away. Should I be using something other than call_pv to execute my sub? Should I be using exec or use instead of require? -Jeff Lowrey
