You wrote: 
    > what conditions must be in place in order to turn a 
    > complete program into a 'magic box' or function that
    > can be included in another program?

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You need to be more careful of scoping issues, particularly if you're using lexical variables. For exmaple, if you declared your hash as a file-scoped lexical (my) variable in your code, it wouldn't be available to the script that require-d it.

Another issue is that the script you're require-ing has to return a true value; that's why such scripts often end with 

    1;

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You might also want to put the code that reads the config file into a subroutine that you can call. And you might want to read perlmod.

In reply to Re: the Magic Box system? (use require) by btrott
in thread the Magic Box system? (use require) by Buckaroo Buddha

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