accessing package variables

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have a project that requires a very large number of hashes. I would like to place these hashes in a seperate file as a package and use them in the main program but:

%hash = packagename::%hash;

but that gives a syntax error. So I tried escaping the "%":

%hash = packagename::\%hash;

but that give an error specifically with the ::\

any ideas? thanks

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Re: accessing package variables by chromatic (Archbishop) on Oct 20, 2000 at 20:32 UTC
Try %packagename::hash. The punctuation symbols have more to do with context than the actual variable names. You could refer to me as Mr. industries, or Mr. chromatic industries, but never as chromatic Mr. industries. Dumb example, but it works for me.	[reply]
Re: accessing package variables by Trimbach (Curate) on Oct 20, 2000 at 20:35 UTC
Put the % in front of your packagename, as in: `%hash = %pacakagename::hashname;` [download] That'll work. Gary Blackburn Trained Killer	[reply] [d/l]
Re: accessing package variables by adamsj (Hermit) on Oct 20, 2000 at 20:33 UTC
I don't suppose you've tried this: `%packagename::hash` [download] That should help.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: accessing package variables by nop (Hermit) on Oct 21, 2000 at 23:19 UTC
Alternatively, rather than having a (painfully?) large number of hashes, toss them all one super hash, where the first 'dimension' of the hash indicates what it is... `$x{'hashname'}{'hashdim1'}{'hashdim2'} = 'blah'` [download] rather than `$hash1{'hashdim11'}{'hashdim12'} = 'blah' $hash2{'hashdim21'}{'hashdim22'} = 'bluck' etc` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]