Take a gander: 
#! c:\perl\bin\perl.exe
$| = 1;
use strict;
my ($message,$date,$week,$file);
$date = "04/28";
$week = "4";
$message  = "\n****** Player Update ******\n";
$message .= `perl z:\\scripts\\baseball\\players.pl`;
$message .= "\n****** Stat Download ******\n";
$message .= `perl z:\\scripts\\baseball\\stats1.pl $date`;
$message .= "\n****** Weekly Stats Update ******\n";
$message .= `perl z:\\scripts\\baseball\\stats2.pl $week`;
$message .= "\n****** Standings Update ******\n";
$message .= `perl z:\\scripts\\baseball\\stats3.pl`;
$file = $date."OUTPUT";
if (-f $file) {
  open(DATA, ">>$file");
} else {
  open(DATA, ">$file");
}
print DATA $file;
close(DATA);
exit;

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Quick explanation:
players.pl updates player information. No problems.
stats1.pl inserts individual player stats from $date. No problems.
stats2.pl updates teams' stats using individual player stats for $week up to $date. Output to file looks good, but the team stats are not updated with the stats inserted from stats1.pl.
stats3.pl updates team standings using team stats. Output looks good, but of course, nothing is updated since the stats didn't change.
All scripts update a local MSSQL7 db via Win32::OLE and work flawlessly from the command line.
Any suggestions?

In reply to Problems with perl script calling perl scripts by mr_ayo

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