Re: Command line confusing me

[benn]

Once you've installed the modules using Zaxo's advice, there are a couple of ways to interface to your data analysis scripts.

The simplest would be to externally call them from within your program, using backticks or similar - something like this...

my $munged_data = `analysis_program $data`;

Alternatively, you could look into including the scripts in your source. Any modules should be easily importable with the 'use' statement, and it should be a simple task to replace command line parameters with passed-in parameters...something like this...

#Old Code
my $data = $ARGV[0];
do_stuff($data);

#New Code
package Munger;
sub munge_data {
  my $data = shift();
  do_stuff($data);
}
1;

HTH
Ben.