Hi, I've got something like this in a script: 
use strict;
my $wibble;
do "include.pl";
print $wibble;

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Now include.pl looks like this: $wibble = "fred"; When I run this I get no output. It looks like 'my' is scoping $wibble to global, but the $wibble = "fred" in include.pl is not evaluated. I suppose I want to implicitly import $wibble from include.pl by using use, but use "include.pl" causes a syntax error. Interestingly if I leave use strict off, then the program prints "fred", as I want. I therefore tried turning off strict for a moment by doing: 
no strict "vars";
do "include.pl"
use strict "vars";

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but that didn't sort it. It's probably something really obvious, can anyone see what I need to do? I don't want to leave strict off completely. Thanks, dch.

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