The first place to look is in the Perl documentation, of course. http://perldoc.com or type "perldoc" at your favorite shell's command line. 
eval $some_perl_source;

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do "filename.pl";

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require "filename.pm";

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use Packagename;

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I would say that these examples are roughly in order of "maturity." By that, I mean, more mature projects tend to use methods further down in this list, rather than methods earlier in this list.

Whether it's a good idea depends on what you want to accomplish, where you get the code you've got, how much your sub-script needs to be isolated or integrated within the current script, and how much you trust the code you're running to do what you expect and nothing tricky.

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In reply to Re: Run Perl from within Perl by halley
in thread Run Perl from within Perl by SmokeyB

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