Script to Script

akwe-xavante has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hoping for a little help

I know what i'm wanting to achieve but don't know what the right questions are to find an answer to my problem

I have a perl script that calls another perl script successfully

system('perl calendar.cgi');

I'm wanting the script "calendar.cgi" to access a matrixarray for a specific year, 2019 for example or 2020

I can do this by placing an exec link in html

This works a treat

Is it possible to achieve the same thing when calling this perl script from within a perl script?

So that it prints data to the browsers screen relevent for the year asked for

Forgive my simplistic explanation...... i'm wanting to export the value of year_required to another script and import it into the second script so that the script knows which matrix array "year" is needed to be printed to screen

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Re: Script to Script by holli (Abbot) on Jul 22, 2019 at 17:00 UTC
See Testing out a CGI script using the command line. holli You can lead your users to water, but alas, you cannot drown them.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Script to Script by daxim (Curate) on Jul 23, 2019 at 11:08 UTC
To save some time: `system 'perl', 'calendar.cgi', 'year_required=2019';` [download] Documented at DEBUGGING in CGI.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Script to Script by harangzsolt33 (Deacon) on Jul 22, 2019 at 21:08 UTC
When arguments are passed to a cgi script following the "?" mark in the URL, then whatever follows the "?" mark is copied into an environment variable named "QUERY_STRING." I think, if your perl script creates an environment variable named QUERY_STRING and then pass the arguments thru that, then run the perl script, it will work. But I haven't tested it. I just think, it would work, because it makes sense. Lol	[reply]
Re^2: Script to Script by Don Coyote (Hermit) on Jul 22, 2019 at 23:00 UTC
perlsec Untaint incoming data from params hashes	[reply]
Re^2: Script to Script by daxim (Curate) on Jul 23, 2019 at 11:06 UTC
It does work. `$ENV{QUERY_STRING} = 'year_required=2019'; system 'perl', 'calendar.cgi';` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Script to Script by Anonymous Monk on Jul 22, 2019 at 22:05 UTC
Lol, You shouldn't talk about things you don't know about.	[reply]