[Thamesvalley-pm] using third party perl scripts

[Charlie Harvey]

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Greg Matthews wrote:
> This question will probably show my naivity... I have a perl script that 
> I want to make use of in my own perl scripts. I dont want to have to 
> mangle the original script as I will loose the ability to easily 
> incorporate updated versions. How can I call the first script from my 
> own? Do I have to resort to a system()
> 
> GREG

Hey Greg,

Sounds like you need to use do or eval.

do EXPR

Uses the value of EXPR as a filename and executes the contents of the
file as a Perl script.

    do 'stat.pl';

is just like

    eval `cat stat.pl`

http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/do.html

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