Granted my experience with polymorphic code is non-existent, but could you do something like the following particularly useless piece of code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my $var = 1;
print "$var\n";



open (IN, "test.pl");
my @lines = <IN>;
close (IN);

open (OUT, ">temp.pl");

foreach (@lines) {
    if ($_ =~ /^my \$var = /) {
        my @parts = split (/\s+/, $_);
        printf OUT "my \$var = %i;\n", ++$parts[@parts - 1]
    } else {
        print OUT $_;
    }
}

close (OUT);
system ("mv temp.pl test.pl");

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Basically, I was just going to say "write the variable to a file and read it", but since you say from "machine to machine", I'm not even sure shared memory would be the answer.

In reply to Re: How to use shared/global emory kind of feature in perl by VinsWorldcom
in thread How to use shared/global emory kind of feature in perl by pravlm

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