Most of your problem here is caused by having subroutines that are only called for their side effects on global variables. A better approach would probably be to use subroutines which return values.

#!/usr/bin/perl
# pie.pl

use strict;
my $pie;
require "b.pl";

$pie = &getpied;

print "The pie says : $pie\n";

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and

#!/usr/bin/perl
# b.pl

use strict;

sub getpied
{
    return "eat me";
}
1;

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An even better approch would be to look into turning b.pl into a real module.

Update: Oops. Just saw the part where you said

Using return is not an option, as I have a whole lot of variables that has to be available in about 8 different scripts.

(thanks to Skeeve for pointing it out)

In that case, you really need to turn b.pl into a module and use Exporter.

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In reply to Re: 'use strict;' between libraries by davorg
in thread 'use strict;' between libraries by Massyn

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