I have read perldata; I am pretty familiar with the concept of a man page and documentation. I also have read the part involving 'strict' very attentive, but could not derive how I'm supposed to declare a variable used (and set) in another file - which I don't wish to touch.

It's nice to rtfm me, but I'm not new to opensource, the 'net, development, *nix or whatever - I just couldn't find this directly in the (extensive) documentation, and it's not important enough to spend a month of thinking on.

I _am_ quite new to perl, though. And I tried all the ways I could think of declaring a variable already.

So, thanks for your referrals, but - don't you know the answer yourself?... - your answer, as it stands, is not really of much help.

:P