in reply to Return a value from Perl pgm called by a dos bat file

Here is a sample BAT file that expands on what gellyfish said: 
  perl -e "exit 5"
  echo %ERRORLEVEL%

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The code above prints "5" , which is what the %ERRORLEVEL% gets set to.

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