I have a number of perlscripts which have a number of variable names in common, such as a html string called footer which prints copyright stuff at the bottom of html page. Ive decided to strip out all these vars and store them in one big file called var.pl . So lets just say var.pl contains one line, which is 
$footer = font({face => "arial", size => "2"},"Copyright 2002");

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Now I can use this var by including the line 
require "var.pl";

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in the calling function, but i also have to comment out -> use strict; in order for this to work without any errors.
How can i get the script to work again with strict included.

In reply to strict and require. by Baz

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