You need to set up the perl script so that it prints the desired value of the variable to STDOUT (with a line feed), and then assign the output of the perl script to the variable using back-ticks, like so: 
$ FOO=`perl_script`
$ export FOO

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So, if "perl_script" consists of: 
print "BAR\n"

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Then, after you have run the two shell commands above, you can see the new value: 
$ echo $FOO
BAR

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There is no other way. The perl script always runs as a sub-process, and any changes to %ENV within the script are simply scrapped when that sub-process terminates -- you cannot "export" an environment variable to a parent process; you can only provide a string value, which a parent shell can then use in a variable assignment.

In reply to Re: exporting environment variable to KSH by graff
in thread exporting environment variable to KSH by ramthen

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