smackdab has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a graphical program that has lots of routines for menus, buttons, etc.

I want to put them in separate files...and include them together...--I am thinking in "c" here ;-)

I looked at:
Keywords related to perl modules
do, import, no, package, require, use

But none seemed right, as the code I want to separate is NOT generic (ie uses globals in main, etc.)

I just want to organize...any thoughts?

Do I have to create modules and export the functions and use Main:: infront of the variables??? I am looknig for somthing simple...

thanks!

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Re: how to split large pl file
by ask (Pilgrim) on Nov 21, 2001 at 07:19 UTC
    But none seemed right, as the code I want to separate is NOT generic (ie uses globals in main, etc.)

    You really need to fix that, or any "organization" is just a waste of time.

    Try figuring out how you can divide up the work your program does in logical parts and then separate them out as modules. 

      perldoc perlmod

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    should be of help (Also available at perldoc.com).

     - ask 

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      Thanks Bjoern,

      but, I was kinda exagerating ;)

      I want to put all menu callbacks in a file and all button callbacks in another file...

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        Something that's a menu callback can easily be made to be (possibly also) a button callback and vice-versa. (Not to mention pull-down menus.) This, IMO, means that these things are not inheritently different such that they should be seperated.
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Re: how to split large pl file
by Hofmator (Curate) on Nov 21, 2001 at 15:49 UTC

    Reading in another file is simple: do 'filename.pl';

    see also do.

    But I'm not saying that I'd recommend this ... using modules is much cleaner.

    -- Hofmator

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