• I've never had any need to use reset, untill this post I didn't even know what it did. Having now read the docs, I can't imagine why anyone would want to use this in a world that includes "my".
• The issue with global variables is that if you packaged this and I tried to use/require it in a script that allready has a variable named "$FILE" your code would destroy my variable. Try this...

  #!/usr/bin/perl
  $FILE = "this is my file, i'm going to want this value later\n";
  print $FILE;
  require('./varstruct.pl');
  print $FILE;
  &VARSTRUCTOR('show', 'E: subs(VARSTRUCTOR)', './varstruct.pl'); # Test
  print $FILE;
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• Your whole strategry for finding variables is massively flawed. I mean, what is this all about?? ...

  #
  # # Extract scalars and arrays. If not an array used in push, require 
  +an equals sign.
  # while (($FILE =~ s/([^\\]|[^\\]\\\\)([\@\$][^\d\W]\w*(\[.*?\])?)\s*=
  +//)||
  #   ($FILE =~ s/push[^\w_]*([^\\]|[^\\]\\\\)(\@[^\d\W]\w*)//))
  #
  [download]

  ...if the code I want to analyze has an array that's not initalized with "=" or used in a "push" call, then your function doesn't find it? That hardly sounds like "Perl's reset function, with extra features"

...there's a lot of other little things about this code that scare me, but i'm too tired to keep iterating over them. the more i look at it, the more depressed i get.

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