Perl - Calling another perl script from a currenly running script

[Gunasingh]

I am new to Perl scripting...

Anyone please help me regarding this issue...

I have a perl script ( such as a startup script or the initial script ) ... i have 5 others scripts ( which are like different scenarios and run after the startup script ) ..... i need not run all the 5 scripts always ... i run the startup script and i need to call the script based on any scenario ( among those 5 scenarios )... how can i do this????

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You can use the backticks (`) to execute a system command:

$result = `random system command`;

This will execute "random system command" and then put the output of the command into $result.

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Oops, forgot a follow-up.

Alternatively, if the scripts you want to run are Perl, you can use require:

#script 1

.. random code ..

if ( .. some condition .. )
    require "myOtherFile.pl"

.. more random code ..

This will take "myOtherFile.pl" and dump the code into that spot.