Hi Owens/Rob, Thanks for your help Rob and Owens.
$path is actually for setting the value for an user define environment variable XYZ_PATH..it points to a lib directory (in the local machine only) *Let me try to summarize the issue:* Crypt is an application that is used to encrypt/decrypt the strings passed as input. I have checked all those functions , they are not causing the delay. As mentioned earlier just to print the first line inside the main of crypt , it takes one sec, which actually mounts up to a significant delay in my program, considering the number of calls made to the subroutine having this statement. I tried an alternative to using the HERE DOCUMENT..i passed the stringVairable as input to the crypt application as another command line argument. I modified the statement in question to : * my $Tmpstr = `$path $HOME/bin/crypt -e -f $_keyfile -p $str; * With this also there isn/t much improvement. The delay still persists. >From the explanations given by you,I doubt if the delay is caused due to the fact that it is executed as a unix command. Rob had explained how it works..So can that be the reason ? If yes, I would like to hear few alternatives, so that I can try them. Any help would be highly appreciated, as I am working on it for quite sometime now.. Thanks, Anisha
