Re^3: Accessing a lexical variable of another file.

So your external file has something like "my $dbh=DBI->connect( .... );" and you want to "have a look" at $dbh?

If that's the case, you really don't care what $dbh is - what you really care about is what DBI->connect returns.

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Re^4: Accessing a lexical variable of another file. by LanX (Saint) on Sep 10, 2014 at 15:03 UTC
Do you think of monkey patching connect()? :) Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)}	[reply]
Re^5: Accessing a lexical variable of another file. by clueless newbie (Curate) on Sep 10, 2014 at 18:07 UTC
Yes, sir! Perhaps you could use Conway's Hook::LexWrap and wrap DBI's connect.	[reply]
Re^6: Accessing a lexical variable of another file. by LanX (Saint) on Sep 10, 2014 at 18:27 UTC
Oh thanks ! Interesting module, I wasn't aware that wrapping can be done transparently to `caller` ... Always did monkey patching the old fashioned way :) Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)}	[reply]
Re^4: Accessing a lexical variable of another file. by Superfox il Volpone (Sexton) on Sep 10, 2014 at 15:51 UTC
Hi, thanks for the replies. Not sure I understood, the reference to the db handle is inside my $dbh. Because the file is a wrapper to the db_handle I do not want to use explicitly dbi->connect(), but I prefer to rely on the file methods to connect & disconnect. I need some additional flexibility too, and for this I would like to exploit the same handle used by the wrapper. Kind regards, S. Fox	[reply]