Please Note: Our is not yet supported in perl 5.005.05. This version is commonly distributed on Solaris 8 (and other places).

If you find yourself in this situation, and think you need to declare a global then try this: 

use vars qw(%friends);

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If you would like to avoid globals ( this is common wisdom) you might consider defining a subroutine to return your values: 
sub getFriends { 
  # Initializes my little hash
  our %friends = (Paul => 1, Suzie => 1);
  return %friends;
}

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then you can do this in your main code 
use Friends;
my %friends = &getFriends();  # for lexical scope

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If you want to happily ignore scopes, you can do this in your main file: 
require "outsidefile";
print %friends;

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in outsidefile: 
#
# guess what? I'm in main's scope !!!
#
%friends = (Paul => 1, Suzie => 1);

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This is BAD, and strict will complain about this.

Can anyone explain how to properly create two files that share the same package name (name space) that works under strict?

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In reply to Re: Re: IMport a variable from another file by freddo411
in thread IMport a variable from another file by Anonymous Monk

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