Calling Perl from another file

I've never used perl and am wickedly confused.

I have this file called

function.pl

I put it in CGI bin

this function automatically creates an RSS feed

how do i call it?

I makea new file called feed.xml and what do i type into it?

thanks

 

It all depends...

Is it a cgi script? Or is it a stand alone perl script? If it's a cgi script, you need to place the script in your cgi-bin directory, and call it like this, http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/function.pl.

However, if it's a perl script that you want to call from a cgi script, then you want to include it in your cgi script, something like this...

include function.pl;

Code (markup):

This is assuming you are calling a function / method within function.pl.

If function.pl is a script you want to run, then you would need to put a system call in your cgi script, like this...

system( "perl function.pl" );

Code (markup):

Please clarify a little more, and I can provide more details.