Okay ... I'm positive that this is likely simple and my brain is just not working today ...

I'm using CGI.pm ... and calling import_names('in') which creates a package namespace for incoming CGI vals so you don't have to worry about name space collisions.

You get a list of keywords that came in via @in::keywords, and can access the variables via $in::keyword.

so ... why does the following produce an error: 

foreach(@in::keywords) {
   
    $in::$_ =~s/asdf/fdsa/g;
}

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I can't imagine how else you'd access the vars created by @in::keywords ... and if this doesn't work, why provide @in::keywords at all? I'm perplexed ... anyone help me out?

- Erik

In reply to How to reference variables in another package via keyword names by theAcolyte

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