Hello monks,
I have this package: 
package MYPACKAGE;

use Exporter;
use vars qw / $VERSION @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK %EXPORT_TAGS /;
$VERSION = 1.0;
@ISA = qw/ Exporter /;
@EXPORT = ();
@EXPORT_OK = qw / sub1 /;
%EXPORT_TAGS = ( DEFAULT => [ qw / sub1 / ] );

use strict;

my $var1 = "DEFUALT I WANT TO CHANGE";
sub sub1 {
    print "var1 = $var1\n";
}

1;

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Now I use this packe in this script like so: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use lib ('.');
use MYPACKAGE qw / sub1 /;
use vars qw / $var1 /;
$var1="PRINT THIS";
sub1();

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The output is: 
var1 = DEFUALT I WANT TO CHANGE
I was hoping that the output would be 
var1 = PRINT THIS
How come the value of $var1 didn't change when I did $var1="PRINT THIS";
in my script?

In reply to changing package variables? by LameNerd

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