Exec a perl script from a perl script?

William_K_F has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a GUI with embedded perl, the user can type commands at prompt which are evaled by a perl interpreter, what would the user type to eval the contents of a file as a perl script?

For example, in tcl it is source and in python it is exec, so if it were source in perl the session might look like this:

perl $>  source myPerlScript.perl
[..output from running perl script..]
perl $>  next_user_input...
[download]

Thanks. -William

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Re: Exec a perl script from a perl script? by runrig (Abbot) on Oct 10, 2005 at 23:58 UTC
do.	[reply]
Re: Exec a perl script from a perl script? by murugu (Curate) on Oct 11, 2005 at 05:01 UTC
Hi, You can use 'do perlscript' in your program. Regards, Murugesan Kandasamy.	[reply]