'lo,

I have a bit of a stupid question - I'm trying to use 'strict', and it's giving me headaches...

I have a variable that is returned by a function in another file (@in, in function ReadParse from the well-known cgi-lib.pl). Without strict, I can just execute &ReadParse, and use $in{'...'}; but with strict, it expects me to declare this variable. If I declare it locally in my perlscript (my (@in);) then it uses a different variable (which is logical, it declares a new one in the scope of the current function which 'overwrites' the other var)... So how do I use a variable from a included library-file if strict is on?

I thought something like 'my (@in) = &ReadParse;' would work, but it doesn't... :(

All explanation welcome, I want to understand this good for once and for all (that's why I want strict).


/ december

Title edit by tye as single-word titles complicate future simple searches

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