Hi, I'm trying to put routines in seperate files, and call them from a perl process. I understand that this is what happens with modules, if you declare use xxx::xxx;

You might want to check out perldoc perltoot. This will nudge you in the right direction.

An example, first the package:

package MyPackage;
use Exporter;
use vars qw / @EXPORTS @ISA /;

my @EXPORTS=qw / mysub /;
my @ISA = qw/ Exporter /; 
sub mysub {
    print "mysub is going to return \"mysub\"\n";
    return "mysub";
}

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and now a main program calling it:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use MyPackage;

print mysub(),"\n";
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Like I said... perldoc perltoot is your friend.

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