I've read the Simple Module Tutorial and realized that I probably don't need to use objects, modules will work for me. I still have one question that has been evading me: What's the best way to use objects in exported functions? I've got a main program that looks like this: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use DBI;

use Exported qw(:All);

my $db_info = "dbi:mysql:database;host=localhost";
our $dbh = DBI->connect($db_info, 'username', 'password', { PrintError
+ => 0 }) or
    die("Couldn't connect to database\n");

print "info: " , getdb() , "\n";

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And the Exported.pm module looks like this: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

package Exported;

use strict;
use Exporter;
use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK %EXPORT_TAGS);

$VERSION     = 1.00;
@ISA         = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT      = (); # no default exports
@EXPORT_OK   = qw(&getdb);
%EXPORT_TAGS = ( All     => [qw(&getdb)] );

sub getdb {
    my $query = $main::dbh->selectrow_hashref("SELECT something FROM a
+_table");
    return $query->{'explanation'};
}

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See that $main::dbh->selectrow_hashref()? I don't like it at all. Is there a better way to access the $dbh object from Exported.pm?

In reply to Using objects in exported functions by discore

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