Hi, all:

I have different versions of a module, say Utils1.pm and Utils2.pm with different filenames but they all have the same package name. I want a .pl file to be able to use whatever version it wants.

Here's the module:

package Utils;

use strict;
use warnings;
require Exporter;

our @ISA = qw(Exporter);
our @EXPORT = qw(Log); # symbols to export on request

sub Log {
  my $message = shift;
  print STDERR "$message\n";
}

# Note that Log() is also called from the Utils namespace:
sub Start_app {
  Log("App started.");
  # Handle other stuff

}

1;

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And it exports a few functions that are used at many points int the code. Because the function is used so many places, I want to improve readability by not explicitly referencing the package in app.pl.

Then we have the app.pl:

#This file: app.pl
use strict;
use warnings;

use Utils1;

Log("App started");

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But I get this when running it:

$ perl app.pl
Undefined subroutine &main::Log called at app.pl line 8.
$

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How do I get Log() imported into main? TIA

In reply to PERL modules named differently than the package won't export by kovacsbv

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