Appologies for the pun, but as it happens that is my question.

I am writing a Perl application whose default output is XML. What I would like is to provide an extensible feature that allows the user to process this XML.

The use of shell's | is not applicable as multiple XML outputs are possible in a single run (for each command arg there is a XML output).

My initial thought was to pass the path to a Perl script as an arg to my Perl script and then do() the users Perl script. However that doesn't work. I want the code to be executed, not evaluated.

I've thought about using exec(). But I'm not sure that passing a multiline string (that could be 1000's of lines long) is a Good Thing (TM). Nor am I aware of a way of passing a Perl object via the shell.

So I throw this open to you wise brethren. How do I get my Perl script to execute a user provided code given via a command line argument?

Cheers

Internet Pixie

In reply to should I do() this? by internet_pixie

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