Hi Robin,

Thanks for the good & useful replies. I will not be able to combine 2 perl files into one . And one of my aims is to invoke the perl interpreter only once. In your example i have seen "perl" as the first argument for "my_args". What does that signify? .Usually people put that field as empty ("") .And one more thing is that whether specifying "perl" as the first argument of "my_argv" may cause the perl intepreter to be invoked every time i call a perl subroutine.