On Tue, 2006-23-05 at 15:00 -0600, siegfried wrote: > How do I run a perl program from a perl program? I could use the back quote > (grave) I suppose. I could also use "system". Is there a better way that > does not create an additional process? > > I have six perl programs running once a day (via cygwin cron). I would like > to have a single cron job running once an hour that checks the database for > the oldest task and, if it is more than 24 hours old, run it. > > I could also write one monster program that combines all six programs. That > is a lot of superfluous "use" statements if I'm only going to be running one > of the six at a time. > > Perhaps I could have a "switch" statement to only "require" those modules > that have been determined to be necessary for the oldest task. Is this the > best way?
You could use AutoLoader, see `perldoc AutoLoader`. AutoLoader only loads subroutines when there are called. AutoLoader is shipped with Perl. -- __END__ Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, --- Shawn "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." Aristotle * Perl tutorials at http://perlmonks.org/?node=Tutorials * A searchable perldoc is at http://perldoc.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
