Choroba, thanks for your reply. I implemented your suggestions and will add the code here for trouble shooting purposes, but I am still getting this error:
Undefined subroutine &VSCOperl::trim called at ./dupCheck.pl line 19, <DATA> line 960.

Here is the new code to my program:

#!/home/myhomedrive/opt/perl/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use Net::LDAP;

use lib '/home/myhomedrive/scripts/lib';

use customPerlMod qw{ trim ltrim rtrim };

my $string = "  ll ";
$string = customPerlMod::trim ( $string );

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and here is the Module:


#!/home/myhomedrive/opt/perl/bin/perl
package customPerlMod;

use strict;
use warnings;

use Exporter 'import';
our @EXPORT_OK = qw(return_month return_day trim ltrim rtrim );


# Perl trim function to remove whitespace from the start and end of th
+e string
sub trim($)
{
    my $string = shift;
    $string =~ s/^\s+//;
    $string =~ s/\s+$//;
    return $string;
}

# Left trim function to remove leading whitespace
sub ltrim($)
{
    my $string = shift;
    $string =~ s/^\s+//;
    return $string;
}

# Right trim function to remove trailing whitespace
sub rtrim($)
{
    my $string = shift;
    $string =~ s/\s+$//;
    return $string;
}

1;

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what do you mean by prototypes?

Thanks in advance for your help! Frank

In reply to Re^2: Trouble usig a subroutine from a custom module by fritz1968
in thread Trouble usig a subroutine from a custom module by fritz1968

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