Hi Perl Monks

I'm doing some thing wrong here and for the life of me I can't see what's going wrong. All help gratefully recieved.

I have inherited some Perl scripts, and I have one Perl script program which has a require statement of another Perl file.
I also call a Perl Module that I've created.

Thus my main script requires 'somefile.pl' and uses newform.pm.

my main script then calls a sub routine sub_a in somefile.pl. (this works fine).

I then added to main script more code to call new->newform(this works fine).

However

if in the newform package I want to use another sub routine from 'somefile.pl' i declare require('somefile.pl')

and in the newform package I then call sub_b sub routine from 'somefile.pl'.

BUT This now falls over in the main script saying 'undefined subroutine &main::sub_a at blah'!

Can some one explain what's going on here and a possible solution, as my brain has now gone 'Kaput'.

Thanks in advance(hope that was explained clearly enough?)

Cheers

In reply to require issue. by ant

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