I think you should bite the bullet here and put in some time to learn the basics of module creation. While creating a formal module in the cpan vein is still a bit daunting for me, making simple things that only I use took relatively little time to get up and running.

I would suggest you take a look at the FindBin module as a good tool to help you get started testing modules in a project directory. I often use the two below lines of code to point to a lib directory relative where my script is running. $FindBin::Bin will be the directory where your script is running.

use FindBin;
use lib $FindBin::Bin . '/lib';

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In reply to Re: Naive monk trying to make distinctions among subs, external calls and code reuse by Kc12349
in thread Naive monk trying to make distinctions among subs, external calls and code reuse by jjap

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