importing values

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Re: importing values by suaveant (Parson) on Aug 31, 2001 at 18:31 UTC
commandline `last.pl $source`; #in last.pl my $source = $ARGV[0]; [download] you can put it in the environment... (only works if you call last.pl from find.pl) $ENV{SOURCE} = $source; `last.pl`; #in last.pl my $source = $ENV{SOURCE}; [download] pass it on STDIN `open(LAST, "\|last.pl") or die $!; print LAST "$source"; close LAST; #in last.pl $source = <STDIN>;` [download] Those are probably the easiest/best ways... there are other ways, such as using a file, passing over a socket, shared memory, creating a dynamic link to last.pl named for the value of source and running the dynamic link, and then reading the value of $0 in last.pl (don't do that one). Many many ways. - Ant - Some of my best work - Fish Dinner	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: importing values by jryan (Vicar) on Aug 31, 2001 at 18:24 UTC
Use require: `require "find.pl"; print $source;`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: importing values by claree0 (Hermit) on Aug 31, 2001 at 18:20 UTC
pass it on the command line? Put the values into a file?	[reply]
Re: Re: importing values by pmonk (Novice) on Aug 31, 2001 at 18:25 UTC
the value $source is generated in my script called find.pl and I want to take that value and put it in another file called last.pl.	[reply]
Re: importing values by count0 (Friar) on Aug 31, 2001 at 18:31 UTC
There are a great number of ways to do that. Perhaps the most common would be by passing the values during the execution of the script (at the command line in *nix). `./script.pl foo bar baz` [download] Now the values 'foo','bar', and 'baz' are available in @ARGV within script.pl as $ARGV[0], $ARGV[1], and $ARGV[2] repectively. If you haven't already, a good trip to the Library or a copy of "Programming Perl" (ORA - the camel) might come in really handy. =)	[reply] [d/l]