Brothers...any help to identify what I'm doing wrong would be greatly appreciated... I'm putting together some Perl scripts that all connect to an Oracle database. I've put the database connectivity in a library file although I'm leaving each script's specific SQL in the script itself. In my library file (ECClib.pm) I have 
package ECClib;

my $dbh;

sub initialise(){
.
.
$dbh = db_connect($dbuser, $dbpasswd, $dbserver);
.
.
)

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That's all fine and dandy, and I seem to get a good database connection. However, if I then try to use $ECClib::dbh in my parent script, it fails. My calling script has 
use ECClib;

ECClib::initialise();

my $sql="select InputID from ECCInput order by InputID";
my $sth = $ECClib::dbh->prepare($sql);

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The statement handle assignment fails - debugging shows that $ECClib::dbh is undefined. What am I doing wrong?

In reply to Qualified package variable access by jerryhone

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