Hi Robert,

'do' ... seemed to work at first for me but is acting wonky

There are some differences between do and eval, maybe that's the problem?

"do 'stat.pl'; is largely like eval `cat stat.pl`; except that it's more concise, runs no external processes, keeps track of the current filename for error messages, searches the @INC directories, and updates %INC if the file is found. ... It also differs in that code evaluated with do FILE cannot see lexicals in the enclosing scope; eval STRING does."

Also do requires some more error checking to figure out what went wrong if the file doesn't compile/run, see do.

Hope this helps,
-- Hauke D