I need to call a number of perl scripts from inside another one. I know there's a half dozen different ways to do this, but I don't know which one is best.
The specifics: each of the called files will need to be supplied with dynamic arguments and need to either create a PDF file and pass back the filename, or pass back the PDF perl object. (using PDF::API2 if it matters) Or what's your better idea on getting the PDF back into the main script? The auxiliary scripts have not been written yet, so I can do that however works best for whatever method I pick.
So monks, do I read in the script and eval() it? Open2()? Etc. Etc. Bonus points if it's multi-thread friendly.

In reply to Best way to call another perl file by derekstucki

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