I'm trying to set up some constants in a module that will be accessible from other code. The final things will be capitalised and I may experiment with other modules to lock them, but for the moment I'm trying the examples from Simple Module Tutorial, but modified for my needs. And I'm getting frustrated. I have two files:

MyModule.pm 

package MyModule;

use strict;
# Case A
use Exporter;
use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK %EXPORT_TAGS);
$VERSION     = 1.00;
@ISA         = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT      = ();
    #@EXPORT_OK   = qw(func1 func2);
@EXPORT_OK   = qw(@rray);
    # %EXPORT_TAGS = ( DEFAULT => [qw(&func1)],
                     # Both    => [qw(&func1 &func2)]);

    # sub func1  { return reverse @_  }
    # sub func2  { return map{ uc }@_ }

# Case B
# use Exporter qw(import);

# our $VERSION     = 1.00;
# our @ISA         = qw(Exporter);
# our @EXPORT_OK   = qw(@rray);

# All cases    
my @rray = (1, 2, 3, 4);
1;

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MyScript.pl 

use strict;

# case 1
# use MyModule;
# print scalar(@rray);

# case 2
# use MyModule;
# print scalar(@MyModule::rray);

# case 3
use MyModule qw(@rray);
print scalar(@rray);

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Case 1 returns Global symbol "@rray" requires explicit package name as one would expect. Cases 2 and 3 both print 0. Case A or B makes no difference.

Where have I blundered, please?

TIA & regards,

John Davies

In reply to (Solved) Exporter not behaving as expected by davies

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