Hi, I think that you are looking for a serialization mechanism.
For that you can use the Storable module (http://search.cpan.org/~ams/Storable-2.16/Storable.pm) All you need to do is to freeze the variable in the first process, send it by pipe and thaw it in the other process. Yaron Kahanovitch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Volk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: beginners@perl.org Sent: 19:43:20 (GMT+0200) Asia/Jerusalem יום חמישי 17 מאי 2007 Subject: pass variable to another program Hello, Is there a way to pass a variable from one program to another? I have a web site that allows the user to set the time they would like to download a file... The program uses the Linux "at" command and launches another perl program that does the actual FTP download. I would like to pass a parm variable (email address) from the web site, captured in the first perl program to the second perl program. Is this possible? First program uses this line to queue the job system "/usr/bin/at $hour:$minute $tod today < /var/www/cgi-bin/images"; images is a text file containing the perl program that runs the FTP download: perl /var/www/cgi-bin/get_image_file.pl Is there a way to pass a variable from program 1 to program 2? Thanks for your help!! Brian Volk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
