Run Perl script from Perl script? 1

[serpento]

Is it possible to run a perl script from inside another perl script?

-Ed ;-)

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[icrf]

If it's on the local machine, there's a variety of ways you can make system calls.

#run, wait, and continue
system("/path/to/perl/script.pl");

#like above, but stores the output
#note: backticks ` not apostrophe '
@lines = `/path/to/perl/script.pl`;

#run and exit
exec("/path/to/perl/script.pl");

#run, continue, and don't wait
fork("/path/to/perl/script.pl");

Or if you're trying to call a cgi script from another website, the LWP module is the easiest thing to use.

use LWP::Simple;
$webpage = get("[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi");[/URL]

Probably more ways. Perl, the great TIMTOWTDI language.

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[serpento]

Thanks very much. Thats just what I was looking for.

-Ed ;-)

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