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Passing Variables to a script

andy7t
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Jan 4, 2005, 11:17 AM

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Passing Variables to a script	Can't Post

Hi,

This should be a straight forward question.

I want to pass variables from one Perl script to another.

I've tried this:

SCRIPT 1:

$calling=`perl script2.cgi var1=thing`;

SCRIPT 2:

use CGI;

$query=new CGI;

$called=$query->param('var1');

However, $called never returns anything. If i just run perl script2.cgi var1=thing direct from the command line, SCRIPT 2 works fine, so why doesn't EITHER the CGI module pick up the paramaters, or SCRIPT 1 doesn't pass the paramaters?

I know that the script is been called sucessfully, because $calling returns the rest of SCRIPT 2, it just doesn't pass the vars.

(This post was edited by andy7t on Jan 4, 2005, 11:18 AM)

kencl
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Jan 12, 2005, 2:27 PM

Post #2 of 4 (805 views)

Re: [andy7t] Passing Variables to a script [In reply to]	Can't Post

try: $calling=`perl script2.cgi?var1=thing`;

>> If you can't control it, improve it, correlate it or disseminate it with PERL, it doesn't exist!

davorg
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Jan 13, 2005, 5:03 AM

Post #3 of 4 (802 views)

Re: [kencl] Passing Variables to a script [In reply to]	Can't Post

In Reply To

try: $calling=`perl script2.cgi?var1=thing`;

Did you try it?

Code

$ cat script2.cgi 
#!/usr/bin/perl 
 
print "This is script2\n"; 
$ cat test.pl 
#!/usr/bin/perl 
 
$calling = `perl script2.cgi?var1=thing`; 
 
$ ./test.pl 
Can't open perl script "script2.cgi?var1=thing": No such file or directory 
$

The correct answer is to get the arguments from @ARGV. script2.cgi is (despite it's name), _not_ being called as a CGI program and therefore you can't use CGI-style parameter passing.

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kencl
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Jan 13, 2005, 6:26 AM

Post #4 of 4 (801 views)

Re: [davorg] Passing Variables to a script [In reply to]	Can't Post

I didn't try it no. I never used the command line. My assumption was that he wanted to run it in a CGI environment and was just testing with the command line.

>> If you can't control it, improve it, correlate it or disseminate it with PERL, it doesn't exist!

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