G'day Sriram,

The built-in module Storable allows you to store Perl data structures and retrieve them later. This may be suitable for your use.

Here's a very quick-and-dirty example of a "parent script" (pm_1078041_parent.pl) calling a "child script" (pm_1078041_child.pl). The child creates a hashref, stores it and exits. The parent retrieves the hashref and uses it to create XML.

[XML::Simple was only used for demonstration purposes. Please don't take that as any sort of recommendation.]

The parent script (pm_1078041_parent.pl):

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Storable;
use XML::Simple;

my $file = 'pm_1078041_store';

`pm_1078041_child.pl`;

my $hashref = retrieve $file;

my $xml = XML::Simple->new->XMLout($hashref);

print $xml;

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The child script (pm_1078041_child.pl):

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Storable;

my $file = 'pm_1078041_store';

my $hashref = {
    key1 => 'qwerty',
    key2 => 'asdfgh',
    key3 => {
        A => 1, B => 2, C => 3,
    },
    key4 => [5, 6, 7],
};

store $hashref => $file;

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A sample run:

$ pm_1078041_parent.pl
<opt key1="qwerty" key2="asdfgh">
  <key3 A="1" B="2" C="3" />
  <key4>5</key4>
  <key4>6</key4>
  <key4>7</key4>
</opt>

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-- Ken

In reply to Re: How to return Hashref from one script to another script? by kcott
in thread How to return Hashref from one script to another script? by sriram83.life

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