Running another program in current program

From: Durai (tech_durai_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/29/04 

To: <beginners@perl.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:38:26 +0530

Hello All,

In shell script file, I can call another program & checked the exit status.
Like:

./prog2
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
        echo "Error"
        exit
fi

How to do in perl?

ANy help much appreciated.

Regs,
Durai. 

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