If you actually did have use strict in the included file patterns.pl, you'd have gotten 

couldn't parse .../patterns.pl: Global symbol "@LOGE" requires explici
+t package name at ...

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This is because do does not see lexicals in the enclosing scope, i.e. your my @LOGE, which I suppose was the idea. Rather, the @LOGE in patterns.pl is treated as a separate package variable.

You could use string eval instead (which does see lexicals in the enclosing scope). I.e., read the contents of patterns.pl into a string and eval it 

my $config;
{
    local $/ = undef;
    open my $fh, "<", $MATCH_FILE or die $!;
    $config = <$fh>;
}
my $return;
unless ($return = eval $config) {

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Alternatively (and usually better), create a proper module and use Exporter.

In reply to Re: Making use of a config file written in Perl by Anonymous Monk
in thread Making use of a config file written in Perl by noodleish

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