To allow dirty code to be evaluated in one of my scripts, I put them in uniquely named packages. However, badly written ad they are, they use package globals, and I'd like to get rid of them after script execution.

undef can undef scalars and destroy arrays, hashes, subs and even complete typeglobs, but it can't destroy packages.

Currently, I iterate over keys %{$package . '::'}, but if there's a better way to do it, I'd like to know about it.

sub cleanup {
    my ($package) = @_
    undef *{$package . '::' . $_} for keys %{$package . '::'};
}

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In reply to undef Package; by Juerd

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