I was referred to chromatic's SOPW post that gave a beginner's template on writing their first module. I've started in on mine, but I'm noticing that some of the first few fields need a bit more explanation...

The code from chromatic's post starts out with the following:

  # Magical export invocation.
  use Exporter;
  @ISA = 'Exporter';
  @EXPORT_OK = qw(genHeader);

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now, I interpreted the EXPORT_OK array to contain the subroutines from the module that would be exported to the script calling it. so, i placed (genHeader) in there. In my "module", I just have:

  # Body here.
  # Will fill in
  sub genHeader {
    my $i = shift;
    print "<VirtualHost $i>\n";
  }

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However, when I run my code, I receive the Undefined subroutine &main::genHeader error. My mod is called config.pm and its in the current directory as the script. My script's perl call is #!/usr/bin/perl -w -I./

Is there a module howto that I can run off of on top of chromatic's post? Or, if the answer's concise, can someone point out what's wrong with what I have?

humbly -c

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