in reply to How to convert Perl file to a perl module(.pm file).

The trivial answer is to just rename it, and make sure it returns a true value (this is usually done by making sure the last line of code is "1;").

More generally you probably want to:

Here's an example script...

# greeting.pl print "What is your name?\n"; chomp(my $name = <STDIN>); print "Hello, $name!\n";

You could refactor it into a module like this:

# Greeting.pm package Greeting; sub say_text { my $handle = shift; print $handle "$_\n" for @_; } sub read_answer { my $handle = shift; chomp(my $answer = <$handle>); return $answer; } sub question { return "What is your name?"; } sub response { my $name = shift; return "Hello $name"; } 1;

Which could be used like this...

# greeting.pl use Greeting; my $in = \*STDIN; my $out = \*STDOUT; Greeting::say_text($out, Greeting::question()); my $name = Greeting::read_answer($in); Greeting::say_text($out, Greeting::response($name));

After that, something to consider is making your code more object-oriented, thus allowing people to subclass it, overriding parts of its functionality.

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'