As the title suggests, I (think) I know what I'm doing wrong, but I haven't got the foggiest idea how to fix it. I humbly present my .pl :

#!/usr/bin/perl

use 5.014;
use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;
use AppConfig qw(:all);
use Data::Dumper;

$AppConfig::configFile='/home/john/tmp/config.xml';

my %config=getAPPConfig();
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and my .pm

#!/usr/bin/perl

package AppConfig;

use 5.014;
use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;

use Exporter qw(import);

# Module specific imports
use XML::Twig;

our $VERSION     = 1.00;
our @ISA         = qw(Exporter);
our @EXPORT_OK   = qw(getAppConfig);
our %EXPORT_TAGS = (
               'all' => \@EXPORT_OK,
           ); 

our $configFile;

sub getAppConfig {

my (%config,$twig,$root);
say $AppConfig::configFile;
$twig = XML::Twig->new();
$twig->parsefile->($AppConfig::configFile);
$root = $twig->root;

$config{'ppSK'}=$root->first_child('pp')->first_child('ppSK')->text;

return \%config;

}

# End.....
1;
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Now... when I run it, I get this....

/home/john/tmp/config.xml
Use of uninitialized value in -f at /usr/share/perl5/XML/Twig.pm line 
+697.
Couldn't open :
No such file or directory at AppConfig.pm line 30
 at AppConfig.pm line 30
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So the variable scope seems to be ok because "say $AppConfig::configFile;" outputs.... but then the same variable passed to XML::Twig seems to cause all hell to break loose. So here I am, submitting myself to the lions as another newbie to be devoured.

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