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Wow, I did not know require would execute the content of the file.

Very good to know. I am glad you found my post and corrected it.

Thanks!

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Re^4: Update config file parameters
by afoken (Chancellor) on Jan 08, 2016 at 20:14 UTC
    I did not know require would execute the content of the file.

    Think about it: How else could require and use (which is just require wrapped in a BEGIN block, and optionally a call to an import method) load and initialise a perl module? How would module Foo load a module Bar that it depends on, if not by executing use or requrie in Foo when the main program requires or uses Foo?

    Alexander

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      I did "think about it" after your post, and already peeked at the docs...

      Thanks, again.
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