When you declare the variables with my, Perl considers those values more important than the variables in the required file.

use vars '$foo';
$foo = 'foo';
{
    my $foo = 'bar';
    print "'$foo'\n";
}

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The quick solution is something like this:

use vars
    qw( $s_month $s_day $s_year $week_1 $week_2 $week_3 $week_4 );

requre schedule;

$s_day  = 2;
$s_year = 2000;
print "\$smonth is $s_month ,\$sday is $s_day, \$syear is $s_year\n";

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A better answer may be using Exporter to export values from your schedule package into the namespace. Of course, looking at the values in schedule, I'm inclined to recommend:

use vars qw( %s @weeks );
%s = (
    month => 'Jun',
    day   => 21,
    year  => 2004,
);

@weeks = ( 'TEAM 1', 'TEAM 2', 'TEAM 3', 'TEAM 4' );

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In reply to Re: problem with accessing PM file by chromatic
in thread problem with accessing PM file by Anonymous Monk

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