Here is a sample, using Config::Tiny:

$ cat myconfig.ini
var1=hello
var2=perl
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$  perl -MConfig::Tiny -e 'my $Config = Config::Tiny->read("myconfig.i
+ni"); print  $Config->{_}{var1},"\n",  $Config->{_}{var2},"\n"'
hello
perl
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Thank you. this solution has worked for me

so there is no way i can access variables outside the file

> so there is no way i can access variables outside the file

sure, but they need to be package variables declared with our

The cleanest way is to define an own package "File1".

Then you can either export them or reference them via $File1::var1

If you rally want both files to be in the same package ("main" is default), then you won't need to fully qualify them by a leading package name.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

As has been mentioned lexicals at a file scope aren't accessible outside that file. What you've written is (more or less) equivalent to trying to do this:

{
my $var1 = "hello";
my $var2 = "perl!";
}
print $var1;
print $var2;
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If you tried to do that under strict you'd get errors immediately because you're trying to access variables after they've gone out of scope. See Coping with Scoping.