If you use Exporter, you can get the best of both worlds by making the functions from Common available for import into your script:

COMMON 3 

package Common;
use warnings;
use strict;
use base 'Exporter';
our @EXPORT_OK=qw(get_uppercase);
sub get_uppercase {
   my ($class, $name) = @_;
   return uc($name);
}
1;

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SCRIPT 3 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use Common qw(get_uppercase);

my $name = "frodo";
$name = get_uppercase($name);

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Update: Changed use Exporter to use base 'Exporter' to inherit properly. Sorry, bradcathey!

In reply to Re: Library file or module for sharing code? by sgifford
in thread Library file or module for sharing code? by bradcathey

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