On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 16:43 +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just want to know what really is the difference when running a script as
> 
> . myscript or simply myscript, i.e. the first one with a dot infront of it and
> the other one without a dot.
> 
> Or does it matter only when invoking the script from within a script?
> 
> Any thoughts will be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

this is a script problem not perl however try this

myscript
  ABC=xyz

myscript
echo :$ABC:
::

. myscript
echo :$ABC:
:xyz:


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