Dear All, I am in the process of converting about 150 individual data conversion scripts to a single, common script. I have concluded that 99% of the code is common to all users, and just 1% is user-specific. What I want to be able to do is to pass the user-name as a parameter, like "convert client1" and have a sub in the script hook out the relevant block of conversion code. Like so.. 
common code;
 include $ARGV[0].code;
more common code;

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Here's an example of my user-specific code: 
if ( m/(\S+),(\S+),(\S+),(\S+),(\S+),(\S+)/o )
  {
  @fields        = split(/,/);
  $CLI           = $fields[0];
  $key           = $fields[1];
  $product       = $fields[2];
  $quantity      = $fields[3];
  $price         = $fields[4];
  $salesdate     = $fields[5];
  }

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Problem is, I am not aware of an "include" facility in Perl (called include), and can't think of an obvious workaround. The problem as I see it is that the code segment needs to be pulled in and executed as patr of the main script: will this work ? TIA

In reply to How can i "include" an executable section of code by mildewhall

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