I have a subroutine that is called from many other packages. I need this subroutine to read the contents of __DATA__ from the package that called it and then do something with it (__DATA__ will contain a default template for html output). I have tried something like this: 
package TMPL;

sub fodus {
    my $caller = (caller(0))[0];
    my $out = join('',<{$caller .'::DATA'}>);
    # do stuff to $out
    return $out;
    }

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but that didn't work. I even tried this just to see if it would work if I hard-coded in the caller's package name: 
package TMPL;

sub fodus {
    my $out = join('',<Caller::DATA>);
    # do stuff to $out
    return $out;
    }

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But it still complained that Caller::DATA was only used once. In both of these examples I'm using strict with warnings. So how exactly can I access the contents of __DATA__ in a different package?

-caedes

In reply to Accessing the __DATA__ blocks of other packages by caedes

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