hi, i have a .pm file named Util. and a subroutine that returns a next date. 
sub getNextDate { 

    $inputDate = @_[1];    
    if ($inputDate != "") {    
        ($year,$mon,$day) = split("-",$inputDate);    
        $mon = $mon - 1;    
        $dtToday = timelocal(0,0,0,$day,$mon,$year);    
    } else {    
        $dtToday = time;    
    }    
    $nextDate = $dtToday + 86400;         
                                                                      
+                                                           
        $nextMonth = ( localtime( $nextDate)->mon ) + 1;             
         $nextYear = ( localtime( $nextDate)->year ) + 1900;          
+        
    $nextDay = localtime( $nextDate)->mday;             

    if($nextMonth <=  9) {                                      
            $nextMonth = '0'.$nextMonth;               
    }

    if($nextDay <=  9) {
            $nextDay = '0'.$nextDay ;
    }

return $nextYear . "-" . $nextMonth . "-" . $nextDay;
}

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i have a .ksh file. i want to pass a date as an argument from the .ksh file to the subroutine in .pm. my code in .ksh is 
startDate=2013-02-25
perl -MUtil -e 'print Util::getNextDate("$startDate");' > $result
echo $result

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its not working..i am getting output based on current date rather than the date i am passing.. if i keep date directly instead of variable, i am getting correct output. 
perl -MUtil -e 'print Util::getNextDate("2013-02-25");'

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but i want to use $startDate instead of 2013-02-25.....please help

In reply to unable to pass argument from ksh script to subroutine in .pm file by sarvari

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