[Za-pm] Require and <>

[Ian Balchin]

Hi,

Having got a number of routines to massage my data I thought that I should 
get them all together into one.

First thought, that I would sew them all up together in one giant script. Since 
I have several divergent paths and would have several of 'mega-scripts', I 
could end up with a maintenance problem if I decided to change one of the 
component scripts which I would have to do within each mega-script. Not a 
big deal, but ...

Second thought, 'call' all of them from within the mega-script. I look at the 
camel book and decide that 'require' is the way to go. Well, yes and no 
because the scripts rely on command line file input which goes to <> and it 
looks like this does not retain the input for all the scripts called one after the 
other. Any way, my simple effort generated error messages which I can't 
repeat  at this moment.

I may be wrong. However, my thought was then to save <> to a $myfiles at 
the beginning and then reset prior to calling each succeeding script. I haven't 
actually tried this yet. So, question.

Is there a more elegant way of handling this small problem?

with thanks for any suggestion
Anne--
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