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

<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/calendar.cgi?year_required=2019"-->

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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