Unfortunately, I'm not very experienced (read: none) with creating packages or modules, so I've simply "require"-d the necessary sub scripts. If I try to run the main script with full strict-ness, I get all kinds of scope errors from the sub scripts. How can I make these global variables truly global?

Well... if I'm not mistaken you can make any variable a (package) global variable with the use vars qw($some @vars); pragma. If I'm mistaken, please correct me.

However, I'd suggest that you take a moment and read a bit about packages and namespaces. You will be able to resolve all those scope issues that use strict; is complaining about by changing from require-ing an external script that contains your subs, to use-ing or require-ing a perl module (*.pm) file. This allows you to manage your variables in nice, neat namespaces . Sure, it's a little more work (and incidentally it took me many readings of the documentation ;) initially but the payoff is huge.

Good luck fuzzyping!!!!

..Guv

In reply to Re: Re: Re: More problems with CGI::Session by theguvnor
in thread More problems with CGI::Session by fuzzyping

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