I trying to get an application to set a couple of Global (?) variable that will be used in package subroutines. I thought I could use  $main::DEBUG my test main is

#!/usr/bin/perl                   ## this is perl5.16
my $DEBUG = 1233;
my $VERBOSE=5;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Getopt::Long;

my $Usage = "this is Usage";
Getopt::Long::GetOptions( 'd=i'     => \$DEBUG,
                          'v=i'     => \$VERBOSE ) or die "Incorrect u
+sage! $Usage\n";
print "in MAIN DEBUG is $DEBUG \n";
print "In Main VERBOSE is $VERBOSE \n";
use lib "../lib";
use myApp;

myApp::testprint();
myApp::testprint2();
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The code for myApp.pm is

package myApp;

my $DEBUG   = $main::DEBUG;
my $VERBOSE = $main::VERBOSE;

print " myApp.pm has DEBUG [$DEBUG]\n";
print " myApp.pm has VERBOSE [$VERBOSE]\n";

1;

sub testprint {
    print "in myApp::testprint DEBUG is [$DEBUG]\n";
    print "in myApp::testprint VERBOSE is [$VERBOSE]\n";
}
sub testprint2 {
    my $DEBUG   = $main::DEBUG;
    my $VERBOSE = $main::VERBOSE;
    print "in myApp::testprint2 DEBUG is [$DEBUG]\n";
    print "in myApp::testprint2 VERBOSE is [$VERBOSE]\n";
}
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The results.

./xVERBOSE 
 myApp.pm has DEBUG []
 myApp.pm has VERBOSE []
in MAIN DEBUG is 1233 
In Main VERBOSE is 5 
in myApp::testprint DEBUG is []
in myApp::testprint VERBOSE is []
in myApp::testprint2 DEBUG is []
in myApp::testprint2 VERBOSE is []
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any help would be appreciated tks gerry

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