Hello almut, I have double-checked the things you mentioned, but they seem to be correct. I repaste the codes I have used. The package is (with its full absolute path):

/home/UTKU/devel/my_script/dir_two/my_package.pm

The content of this package is as follows:
$ cat dir_two/my_package.pm

package my_package;

require(Exporter);
@ISA = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT = qw( %my_hash );

%my_hash = ( 'my_val' => 7 );

print "my_package is called!\n";

1;

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The script that is expected to take this package is following:

UTKU@utkuhome ~/devel/my_script
$ cat my_script.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w



use Data::Dumper;
use dir_two::my_package qw( %my_hash );

print @INC;

print Dumper(\%my_hash);

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Now when the script is called, following comes out to stdout:

UTKU@utkuhome ~/devel/my_script
$ ./my_script.pl
my_package is called!
Name "main::my_hash" used only once: possible typo at ./my_script.pl l
+ine 10.
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/usr/lib/perl5/5.8/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.
+8/cygwin/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygw
+in/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/u
+sr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/usr
+/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.$VAR1 = {};

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Where is my mistake? Update: I have done the thing you recommended, ie. the package name dir_two::my_package;, it works, thanks. I am not allowed to alter the package namespaces. Is there any other way to do it?

In reply to Re^4: access to hashes with same name, from different packages with same name by utku
in thread access to hashes with same name, from different packages with same name by utku

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