I am new to perl objects, so please excuse me if this question seems a tad basic ;-)

I have a few rather large data structures that I want to use in a package (currently stuffed in a single file and required as needed).

Now I've decided that I really should try to get the hang of this OO stuff, and I'd like to know whether I can (or should!) use a require in the package I'm making (like in the scripts I've been using) rather than adding a few hundred lines to the package file itself, i mean like 

  package Blocker;
    use strict;
    use Switch; 
    require "data_defs.pl";
    ...

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Would this create any problems? Would each object have it's own copy of the data, or would there still only be one like a require in a normal script? - Like I say, there is alot of data.

I would include some more code here, but you'd probably laugh at me (alot...!)

Thanks for any advice you can give!

In reply to Require in modules...? by DickieC

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