A major shift of code is needed. Move the sub cell_handler to above the parser construction, and remove the name, making it anonymous.

The problem is that named subs are always global. They cannot bind to variables that are currently "in-scope" (in a surrounding function) that may go out of scope (calling cell_handler outside of the surrounding function). In short, global (named) functions cannot be closures.

# Excel parsing

my $cell_handler = sub {
  # cell_handler contents go here.
};

my $parse_excel = new Spreadsheet::ParseExcel(CellHandler => $cell_han
+dler,
                                              NotSetCell  => 1);

#...

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In reply to Re: Perl complaining about vars not staying shared by Tanktalus
in thread Perl complaining about vars not staying shared by Andre_br

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