I would not call your question "stupid."

I will, however, chime in with the chorus singing "use a module." Modules, as I'm sure you know, are Perl's (approximate) equivalent of what are called "libraries" in most compiled languages.

Now, before doing this kind of work, it's probably wise to poke around CPAN or PPM to see if somebody has already written a module for what you're doing. If not, one could find a module doing something similar and use it for inspiration, giving proper credit to the creator of the module you're plagiarizing using as a muse.

emc

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In reply to Re: calling a perl file from a perl script by swampyankee
in thread calling a perl file from a perl script by hodashirzad

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