[ale] [OT] export inside perl

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Elanchezhian Sivanandam wrote:
> hi,
>        i did export some values inside perl (using shell command 
> "export") but didn't get reflected in the shell after execution of the 
> script. How to do it???

If you're expecting the exported values to be available to the shell 
script calling the perl script, it won't happen.  The script calling 
your perl script is the parent.  parent processes do not have access to 
the child processes environment once the child process dies.  You would 
have to explicitly open up a communication between the processes in 
order to pass that information to the parent.

You might consider returning the values from the perl script to the 
calling script.

> 
> thanks
> 

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