Could you be a bit more forthcoming with what you mean by "it's not working"?

At first glance, the code sample you've posted here (copied here: 

open(FCOOKIE, "|cookie.pl name=$name buddy=$buddy'"); #open cookie.pl 
+as a pipe, the variables name and....
                                                 ^

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)has a mismatched quote (at the caret), so there's a syntax error which may cause a problem.

Next, I you should check to see if the open failed, check to see if $name and $buddy are set, have legitimate values, and are not being munged up by the shell (I think that open uses the shell when the a command is opened). Third, check out perlipc, if you haven't already done so.

<update> Struck out statement about syntax error; see davorg's comment.

emc

At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.

—Igor Sikorsky, reported in AOPA Pilot magazine February 2003.

In reply to Re: Calling a Perl script from a Perl script by swampyankee
in thread Calling a Perl script from a Perl script by Anonymous Monk

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