module or library or package

You are in danger of being bogged down by semantics. The term "library" does not really mean anything specific in perl. The terms package, namespace, and class can also mean the same thing. The term module is often used to be the same thing as well. That is a simplification, as you learn more Perl then you will find that those terms do actually have their own distinct meanings, but right now you can consider them to be more or less the same.

So you want to create a module, read perlmod and perlmodlib. It is actually very easy. For example, put the following in MyModule.pm in the current directory:
package MyModule;
use warnings;
use strict;

# Insert your subroutines here

# Don't forget this:
1;

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Then just use MyModule; and call the subroutines as (for example) MyModule::mysub();.

In reply to Re: How to creater your own Perl modules/libraries? by cdarke
in thread How to creater your own Perl modules/libraries? by newbie01.perl

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