anandpu70 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I want to export global variable in the perl script like https_proxy=https://url:8080; export $https_proxy. How do i do this in perl script.

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Re: wants to export global variable
by Loops (Curate) on Apr 04, 2013 at 08:18 UTC

    You can't change the environment of the calling process directly. You would have to arrange for that process to call your perl program and stuff whatever it prints into the environment variable of your choice

    You can change the environment variables of any child process you call:

    $ENV{'hello'}='goodbye';
system('echo greetings from the shell, $hello');

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    Much of this has been discussed in other threads. Here is one, Set shell environment variables from within a perl script

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Re: wants to export global variable
by aitap (Curate) on Apr 04, 2013 at 07:47 UTC
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