I am working on a project, which involves many different script files. I would like to be able to have a file that is required (or of some sorts to make it work) so that it is basically a list of scalars, arrays and hashes (all of the basic built-ins) that allows me to setup a 'Configuration' of the system I am working on. I have read the document on Lexical Scoping and partially through have found that the part where requiring lextut1.pl which has $foo defined in another file is partially incorrect. I have in cases used this sort of require to do exactly what I am talking about.

The problem? Well the problem is this. When I use strict to make sure that I am not doing something utterly ignorant, it complains about $foo not being declared. Here is a basic code example.

# file: conf.pl
$foo = 'bar';

# file: script.cgi
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
require 'conf.pl';
{
   ...
   print $foo;
   ...
}
#

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Simple I know, but this is the sort of usage that I am looking for. The only problem, is strict screams about the variable not being declared. Although, if you actually remove strict, this works.

However, I would like to use strict. Has anyone else considered this type of problem? Has there ever been a good solution to this?

Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt (mhorner)

In reply to Require Centralized Variables by mhorner

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