OK

Firstly, I have used the AUTOLOAD code form Perl Black Book

package Autoload;

BEGIN {
            use Exporter();
            @ISA = qw(Exporter);
            @EXPORT = qw(AUTOLOAD);
}

sub AUTOLOAD() {
        my $subroutine = $AUTOLOAD;
        $subroutine =~ s/.*:://;
        $callme = 'Genesis::'.$subroutine;
        &{$callme};
}

END {}

return 1;

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Then I'm using a package that I have called Genesis to read a datafile...

package Genesis;

BEGIN {
            use Exporter();
            @ISA = qw(Exporter);
            @EXPORT = qw(&readdatafile);
}

##################
sub readdatafile {
##################

     open(FILE, "$datadir/data.dat" ); 
     @thedata = <FILE>;  
     close(FILE);
         
}

END {}

return 1;

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variables.pl actually reads a data file for the different values, but for example, assume this simply reads...

$datadir = "path/to/datafiles";

return 1;

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Finally, script.cgi 'requires' variables.pl, 'uses' Autoload and then executes 'readdatafile();'

That is roughly that, so hopefully it will give you the idea of what I'm trying to do?

Floyd

In reply to Re: Re: Using variables within packages by floyd
in thread Using variables within packages by floyd

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