Hello, I've got a strange possibly obvious problem here. I'm trying to cleanup a perl application and I'm not getting the variable passed to another module for some reason. This thing is kind of a maze but its getting better. Heres a brief rundown: 
mat.pl
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use lib "lib";
use Utility;
use Add;
use Group;

Add::Add_Acct();

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lib/Add.pm
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package Add;
### I tryed exporter here with no luck, maybe I did it wrong? ###

require Exporter;
@ISA = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT = qw($USERID);

sub Add_Acct
{
   print "Adding an Account";
   &ID;
   &LAST ;       
   &FIRST;       ##a prior dev did this sub calling, its crap I know #
+##
   &USERID;        ##This sub takes user input ##
   print "ID: $ID - UserID: $USERID \n";  ## All vars defined and as e
+xpected here ##
   Group::Groups();
   ....
   ...

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lib/Group.pm
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package Group;
sub Groups
{
   print "ID: $ID - USERID: $USERID \n";
   ### $ID is ok but $USERID is undefined ##
   .... 
   .....
}

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sub USERID
{
   $USERID = Utility::Single_Input('Input Account Name', $USERID, $REQ
+UIRED);
   print "UserInput entered is $USERID \n";
}

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Ok so a main program Mat.pl calls the Add.pm module which loads some variables from other subroutines and then calls another module, Group.pm . Right before it calls the other module both $ID and $USERID are defined and good. Once it gets into the Group module the $USERID variable is not defined, its just empty yet $ID seems ok. Whats going on here. Maybe I should add that the &USERID subroutine takes user input, but the user input is returned just fine to the Add_Acct sub and its defined right before the call to Groups. What am I missing here?

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