Re: [MacPerl] Running files?

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 11:08:07AM -0400, Vic Norton wrote:
> I have just started using MacPerl. I have written three longish 
> scripts for generating web pages for an HTML database from a tab 
> delimited text file (from an Excel spreadsheet). Right now I can 
> generate the web pages from BBEdit by "running" three files in 
> succession, one after the other. For your curiosity the files are 
> named "createNameList.pl", "createAddrPages.pl", "createNamePages.pl".
> 
> I would like to have a single, small file, "createDB.pl", that would 
> set a couple of essential parameters - the location of original text 
> file and the path to the web page directory where the constructed web 
> pages will be stored - and then "run" the three files above in 
> succession.
> 
> I can't figure out how to this. I'd like to write something like
>     run $filehandle1;
>     run $filehandle2;
>     run $filehandle3;
> but I can't figure out the correct command. Also, whatever I do, I 
> will ultimately have to port it to a PC implementation of Perl.
> 

How about:

do "createNameList.pl";
do "createAddrPages.pl";
do "createNamePages.pl";

?

The three scripts will have access to global variables, but not to lexical
variables, from the main script.

Ronald


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