if you need the output from the second perl script you run... 
$resp = `script2.pl \Q$var1\E \Q$var2\E`;

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the \Q and \E escape any strange characters in var1 and var2 so they don't screw up the call (like & and ' etc), and script2.pl will see those values in the @ARGV array var1 in $ARGV[0] and var2 in $ARGV[1]... the exit value of script2.pl will be in $?

if script2.pl puts out a lot of info you may want something more like 

open(CMD, "script2.pl \Q$var1\E \Q$var2\E") or die $!;
while(<CMD>) {
  chomp;
  print ">>$_\n";
}
close CMD;

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that does essentially the same thing as the ``, except you get the output of script2.pl line by line in $_ in the while loop. (chomp removes the trailing \n from $_)

Finally there is system, which returns the exit code of the script, not the output, the output just goes normally to STDOUT 

if(system("script2.pl \Q$var1\E \Q$var2\E")){
  print "Error running script2.pl!\n";
}

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In reply to Re: Executing a perl script from a perl script??? by suaveant
in thread Executing a perl script from a perl script??? by Anonymous Monk

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