Dear Perl wizards: I need to learn how to import arguments into a module. For example, I want to create a module that stores some stuff for faster later access. I understand that this can be done in different ways, but let's do it with a "static" module. So here is a simplified version of what I want to accomplish; 
package main;
use cacher "/etc";
my $fstab_wc = cacher::wc("fstab");

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This is really a package that is all static. My package itself should do the following: pick up the argument from the use statement (here '/etc') or use a default (say, '/tmp'), and build a hash. 
package cacher;
use strict;
use warnings;
use warnings FATAL => qw{ uninitialized }; # larry, this should have b
+een part of warnings.

...

BEGIN {
  my %cachehash;

  my @saved_pkg_args;

  sub import {
    ... pick off the arguments, here /etc/ ...
    ... allow for a default ...
    ... how?? ...
  }

  use File::Glob qw(bsd_glob);

  foreach my $dir (bsd_glob(@saved_pkg_args, !"GLOB_NOCHECK")) {
     foreach my $file (bsd_glob("$dir/*")) {
         $cachehash{"$dir/$file"} = `wc $dir/$file`;
     }
  }

  sub wc { return($cachehash{$_[0]}); }
}

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so, how do I get the arguments in a simple way?? /iaw4

In reply to Skeleton For Import to Package? by iaw4

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