Calling one Perl script from another - HELP!!!

[Bucchi]

Hi All,

This is my first posting :)

I urgently need some help!!

I am trying to call a perl script from another and capture the exit status (whether successful or not). How should I go about it?

Please help....

Thanks in advance,
Bucchi

[masijade]

use

system("command");

on a uniy system, do man perlfunc and search for system. I don't know where the docu is on windows, but since you are using it, you should, so if you are using windows look up the system call in the docu.

[roswell1329]

To capture the exit code, just test the value of $?. This is an alias for the $CHILD_ERROR special variable, and this variable will contain the exit code for the last system() call or backticks call.