Hello!

I am using CGI.pm's hook call back and I need to use a variable defined in my (the calling) package. It's getting lost and I am not sure how to define it (without declaring it before use strict, or is that the only way??).

So, this is just the relevant code below. $test gets printed in go() but lost during the hook() callback (I understand why, just not sure what the proper way of getting around this is). 

use strict;
use CGI;

our $test = "Big test";

go();

sub go {
        my $q = CGI->new(\&hook);
        print $test;
}

sub hook {
        my ($filename, $buffer, $bytes_read, $data) = @_;
        print $test;
}

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In reply to Making a variable available to another package in a call back by Rodster001

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