Thanks Jeffa, for pointing that out. I'm finally starting to realize the benefits of modules and objects(after 2 years of functional hacking :-) ). So I was just experimenting with setting up simple modules. But your posted code makes me think about taking the next step forward toward OO-modules. By the way, what I was doing was trying to convert my code snippet at linux memory leak monitor linux memory leak monitor to a module.

I found it easy to make a non-OO module with: 

use MeMmonitor;
&MeMmonitor::init($$);

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or 
use MeMmonitor1;  
my $m = MeMmonitor1->new($$);

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but my idea was just to use 

use MeMmonitor;

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and have that do it all with no other statements. Well I started to play with passing the $pid to the module, then realized that both module and script shared the same pid, so it just became an academic question. I can't sleep at night when I have unresolved Perl questions :-) .
I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

In reply to Re: passing a $var thru a "use module($var)" by zentara
in thread passing a $var thru a "use module($var)" by zentara

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