in reply to Losing __DATA__ when evaling script.

If you add a __DATA__ section to the first script you'll see that it removes the error and allows the second script to be eval'd. Don't think there is a simple way to have an eval block extend the Data section.

But for the example you've given above, everything in the first script can be replaced by:

do 'test.pl';

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