I have a project that I've done in perl script. It's a bunch of simple scripts that parse up csv files in different formats and put selected data from them into a common table. I've expanded these individual scripts and have at least one section that is common to all. For the time being, it's better to keep the scripts separate.

What I'd like to do however is take that common section out of all the scripts, put it in it's own script so that it can just be called by the others. This section however must return an array of filenames to the "parent" script. Is this possible in perl?

I know in PHP you just do an include(scriptname) but I don't know how to accomplish this in perl.

thanks,

jeff

In reply to Using php like includes in perl script? by singlespeed

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