Howdy,

Here is my scenario:

• I have about a dozen or so scripts that perform related (but each slightly different) tasks.
• And I have a single library of common functions, which each of the above scripts requires
• Currently, none of the scripts accept command-line options, but I now need to add this functionality.
• As each of the scripts perform (almost) identical functions, and will hence accept the same command-line switches, I thought it would make more sense to add the code for reading these into the library, rather than each individual script.

So far, so good (I think)... So I started playing around with Getopts:Std. I added code to my library like so:

use Getopt::Std;
getopts('fs', \%opts);
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I found that if I then referred to %opts from within the library, like so:

if ($opts{s}) { #do stuff }
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...it all works as expected. But if I try to refer to %opts from outside the library, I get:

Global symbol "%opts" requires explicit package name.....
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The reason for the error is pretty obvious - the script doesn't know about %opts, and as I'm using strict, it barfs. But I'm not sure where to go from here. I'm guessing that I need to create a package, and refer to that - but I'm afraid that this is uncharted territory for me. I've tried putting this:

{
    package FOO;
    use Getopt::Std;
    getopts('fs', \%opts);
}
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in the library, but that doesn't work.

Can somebody point me in the right direction please?

Thanks,
Darren :)

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