Hello, i use the following code in all my pages to create or update a counter for each run of each script.
Because the scripts are gettign bigger and bigger at the time i need to create a seperate file to put this code in and then call within my each script to do its counter update job.

#======== Insert or Update pagecounter appropriately, then display it 
+==========
my ($pagename) = ($0 =~ m{([^/\\]+?)(?:\.[^/\\.]+)?$});

eval { # Just ignore errors if the record already exists
   $db->do('INSERT INTO counters (pagename, pagecounter) VALUES (?, 0)
+',
   undef, $pagename);
};

$db->do('UPDATE counters SET pagecounter = pagecounter + 1 WHERE pagen
+ame = ?',
undef, $pagename) unless( $host eq 'Admin' );

my ($counter) = $db->selectrow_array('SELECT pagecounter FROM counters
+ WHERE pagename = ?',
undef, $pagename);
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So, i have placed the above code in a file called counter.pl and i call it within each perl script as

include ("counter.pl");
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My problem is i dont know how to call 'counter.pl' giving it the name of the refferer script tha called it.

Can you help plz?

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