Hi Monks, I'm totally confused about what is going wrong here. Here is my Perl code. 
my $COUNT_1;
my $parameter1 = 'PU_CLERK';
$COUNT_1 = `sqlplus -s hr/password\@dbname\@sql_script.sql $parameter1
+`;

$COUNT_2 = `sqlplus -s hr/password\@dbname\@sql_script1.sql $parameter
+2`;
if ($COUNT_1 == $COUNT_2)
{
then
do something
}

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I'm basically trying to pass a parameter to my sql script from perl namely $parameter1 which is how we do in a typical unix script. Here is a snippet of my oracle script. '&1' is my parameter. 

select count(*) from employees
where job_id <> '&1'
and salary > 9000
and commission_pct is not null
order by first_name desc
/
exit;

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But my oracle instead of returning a number is returning a error string.

But when i don't use the parameter and hardcode everything works fine. 

my $COUNT_1;
my $parameter1 = 'PU_CLERK';
$COUNT_1 = `sqlplus -s hr/password\@dbname\@sql_script.sql`;

$COUNT_2 = `sqlplus -s hr/password\@dbname\@sql_script1.sql`;
if ($COUNT_1 == $COUNT_2)
{
then
do something
}

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select count(*) from employees
where job_id <> 'PU_CLERK'
and salary > 9000
and commission_pct is not null
order by first_name desc
/
exit;

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So my question is how to pass arguments properly to oracle. Where am i going wrong :( Please ignore the + sign I don't know how to remove that

In reply to what is wrong with this perl script by chai6125

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