I like the idea of using 'do', but I have what's probably a basic mis-understanding on my part.

Under use strict;, the 'do' executes what's in my configuration file, but I don't understand what happens to my scope. When I'm back in the calling file, I can't see the variable set in the config file. I tried 'package main;' at the top of my config, and it didn't do the trick. 

#########   calling script
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my $x;
my $file = 'my.conf';
unless (my $return = do $file) {
    warn "couldn't parse $file: $@" if $@;
    warn "couldn't do $file: $!"    unless defined $return;
    warn "couldn't run $file"       unless $return;
}
print "\$x is $x\n";

##########   config script (my.conf)
package main;
$x = 'abcdef';
42;

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Where am I going wrong here?

In reply to Re: Re: Saving application configuration to files by pboin
in thread Saving application configuration to files by crabbdean

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