in reply to Loading module data

Without seeing your code, I think you're trying to solve the wrong problem. At load time, all bare code within a module is run and you don't even need a BEGIN block. My guess is that your __DATA__ section and your module get mixed up. The DATA filehandle belongs to the __DATA__ section of the main program. If you want to read the __DATA__ section of your module, you need to use My::Module::DATA.

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Re^2: Loading module data
by ady (Deacon) on Apr 28, 2006 at 06:57 UTC
    to Corion ...
    Yes indeed, it was an X/Y question, -- no need for BEGIN here. Thanks -- allan
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Re^2: Loading module data
by ady (Deacon) on Apr 28, 2006 at 06:31 UTC
    Is there no way to have a module read "its own" __DATA__ section at 'use time' ?

    Here's the code:
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    allan
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