I've done this before, so i must be missing something simple.

I have the following module, "test.pm": 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

our $foo = "test";

1;

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and have the following script: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use lib "/var/www/scripts";
use test;

print $test::foo ."\n";

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And get an "Use of uninitialized value in print" error. I've also tried using the following, which results in error as well: 
print $foo

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I can replace "foo" with any variable that does not exist and get the same error. So it seems like it is not reading test.pm properly. But it is at least finding it (trying to load a module that does not exist results in an error).

what am i doing wrong?

In reply to Variables from modules by Anonymous Monk

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