in reply to Calling a Perl script from a Perl script

Could you be a bit more forthcoming with what you mean by "it's not working"?

At first glance, the code sample you've posted here (copied here: 

open(FCOOKIE, "|cookie.pl name=$name buddy=$buddy'"); #open cookie.pl 
+as a pipe, the variables name and....
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)has a mismatched quote (at the caret), so there's a syntax error which may cause a problem.

Next, I you should check to see if the open failed, check to see if $name and $buddy are set, have legitimate values, and are not being munged up by the shell (I think that open uses the shell when the a command is opened). Third, check out perlipc, if you haven't already done so.

<update> Struck out statement about syntax error; see davorg's comment.

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Re^2: Calling a Perl script from a Perl script
by davorg (Chancellor) on Sep 15, 2006 at 15:54 UTC
    At first glance, the code sample you've posted here ([removed])has a mismatched quote (at the caret), so there's a syntax error.

    There's no need to match quotes within a quoted string. Depending on what the string represents, it might (of course) be a semantic error. But it won't be a syntax error.

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