I loaded strawberry perl on my Win 7 machine. Things are going pretty good, but I would like to create a subs.pm file that can store all the little subroutines that I am writing / using.

They work fine when inside the program, but when I try to call the subs.pm, perl can’t find them. 

Directory structure:
C:\strawberry\perl\bin\test.pl
C:\strawberry\perl\subs.pm

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Subs.pm snippet: 

…
sub remove_spaces {
        my ($input, $junk) = @_ ;
        $input =~ s/\s+/ /g ;
        $input =~ s/^ //g ;
        $input =~ s/ $//g ;
        chomp($input) ;
return $input ;
}
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Script snippet: 

#!C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe 
#use lib 'C:\strawberry\perl';
#use subs ;
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    $line = remove_spaces($line);
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Results in: 

C:\strawberry\perl>test.pl
Undefined subroutine &main::remove_spaces called at C:\strawberry\perl
+\test.pl line 18, <INF> line 1.

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How do I refer to the subroutine in the pm file?

Thank you in advance!

In reply to strawberry perl and subroutines - subs.pm by WearyTraveler

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