Hi Jeff, thanks very much for your reply. I tried removing the 'my' definition in the testlib.pl but I continually get the message 
Global symbol "$var" requires explicit package name at ./test.pl line 
+10.
Execution of ./test.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

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Now everything I read seems to point me in the direction of making a module for this, and not having ever made a module I will probably do this anyway for practice, but I'm always concerned if something 'should' work, but doesn't then it still leaves a large gap in my understanding. I'd be grateful if you could help me understand what is going wrong before I move on. Thanks.

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