I am writing some cgi scripts, and in one, I'd like to be able to run some subroutines in another given certain conditions. The first script, login.cgi, and the second, choosecats.cgi, have a few subroutines in common, and when I load choosecats.cgi like this: 
require "choosecat.cgi";
&choosecat::load;

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I get a warning about redefining subroutines. I know that I can say "no warnings;" at the top of choosecats.cgi to supress these warnings, but is there a better way to deal with this? Also, if I must use "no warnings", I'd like to be able to specify a condition which must be true in order for the warnings to be turned off. This conditional is useful for running the scripts on a development server versus a production server. I tried "if ($nodebug){ no warnings; }", but I get the error, the script outputs nothing. Thanks for any help you guys can give.

In reply to subroutine redefined error when switching scripts by lpoht

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