I am new to use strict, and tired of being flamed for not using it. so, I am attempting to write a script that... uses strict! my problem lies with a variable scope that I cant figure out. On line 10 of the following script I have an "unless" statement. The script ran fine, untill I wrapped that line of code inside the unless. Once I wrapped it, I apparently lost scope of the $cfg variable... I tried replacing "my $cfg" with our, and local $cfg. Obviously neither of those worked.. What is the correct way to do this??? 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Config::Simple;

my $config_file = shift;
        if (!$config_file) {
                $config_file = "etc/allweb-backup.conf";
        }

unless (my $cfg = new Config::Simple($config_file)) {
        print "CRITICAL: $config_file is not a valid INI file!\n";
}
my %Config = $cfg->vars();



print "###############################################\n-CONFIG-: $con
+fig_file\n";

while (my($key,$val) = each %Config) {
        if (!$val) {
                print "WARNING : $key has NULL value!\n";
        my $count++;
        }else {
                print "OK      : $key has value of $val\n";
        }

}
print "#########################################\ndone.\n";

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In reply to For the life of me, i can't figure out this "use strict" variable problem by dcasey

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