Hi
I'm trying to pass arguemnts to a child.pl script via a parent script. My child script is as follows -

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

$|++;

use CGI;
my $cgi = CGI->new;
my $number = $cgi->param('number');

print "param: ".$number."\n";

my $n;
print "Command line reporter\n";print "Called with ",$#ARGV+1,"
parameters which ",        @ARGV == 1 ? "was" : "were" ,"\n";print
(++$n,": $_\n") foreach (@ARGV) ;

for(my $i=0;$i<$number;$i++)
{
        print("*\n");
        sleep 1;
}
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when I run this script from the command line, as follows -
 perl child.pl number=4
I get -

param: 4
Command line reporter
Called with 1
parameters which was
1: number=4
*
*
*
*
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But when I call it from the parent script as follows -

exec '/usr/bin/perl', '-T', 'child.pl', 'number=10' or
 die "Cannot execute : $!";
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I get -

Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at child.pl 
+line 10.
param: 
Command line reporter
Called with 1 
parameters which was
1: number=10
Use of uninitialized value in numeric lt (<) at child.pl line 17.
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ARGV works, but not param, what am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.

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