I don't know if this will work, but this technique is what we use with Perl DBI and DBD::Oracle so that the proper Oracle environment variables are set: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

BEGIN {
  $ENV{'ORACLE_HOME'} = "/path/to/oracle";
  $ENV{'ORACLE_SID'}  = "abc";
}

# the rest of your code goes here

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The message being that statements in the BEGIN block are done before any other statements in your script. Try setting your environment variables in there, and then see if you can see those settings inside your script.

HTH.

In reply to Re: Setting environment variables by reading them from a configuration file by Anonymous Monk
in thread Setting environment variables by reading them from a configuration file by robby123

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