Perl question

RHrulz · 07-22-2004, 07:11 PM

Here's what I want to do

I want an if statement to run another script, how do I get er done?

if ($rows) {

run_this_perl_script.pl #what goes here???

}
else
error
}

david_ross · 07-23-2004, 12:52 PM

You could use system, exec or backticks:

system("/path/to/script.pl");
exec("/path/to/script.pl");
$out=`/path/to/script.pl`

It depends if you want to capture the output from the second script or background it etc.

keefaz · 07-23-2004, 01:15 PM

Or if it is a perl script you can :

Code:

if ($rows) 
{
   eval `cat this_perl_script.pl`;
}

That will include the other perl script