problem in calling an external script with system() 1

[aSDDSasdas]

Hello everyone i have the following script (extract.pl)
#!/usr/bin/perl

# Purpose : This Program is used to extract a substring from a String
#use warnings;

scalar @ARGV ==2 or die "usage : There must be only 2 arguments";

my ($eingabe,$muster) = @ARGV;



my $index = index($eingabe,$muster);

$portion= substr($eingabe,0,$index-1);

print $portion;


and now i have another script(temp.pl) trying to call extract.pl . somehow the system call doesnt seem to work..in this case it should atleast return an error statement which it doesnt give. Does anyoone know where the problem here exactly is ?

#!/usr/bin/perl

#use strict;

system('extract.pl');

thank u in advance

 

[hoinz]

perhaps try with full path name:
system('/path/to/extract.pl');

 

[aSDDSasdas]

i tried it out with the absolute path and it doesnt seem to work either.

 

[hoinz]

I copied and pasted your script and tried. Your original version did not work for me either.
It did work when I added full path name.

May I suggest you double-check for typos? Or maybe missing permissions?

 

[aSDDSasdas]

yeah thank u...the permissions were missing thats y it wasnt working

thank u

 

[hoinz]

Glad it helped,
thanks for the star!