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

Dear brothers in perl, I've done some researching, read couple of manuals and references, searched perlmonks.com and I still can't figure out why that script and module doesn't work as i expect. Both module and script are in the same directory. This is a module
package module1; use strict; require Exporter; use vars qw(@EXPORT_OK); our $str = "Placeholder"; @EXPORT_OK = qw($str); 1;
And this is a script:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use module1 qw($str); print $str;
Output of ./script.pl is
Global symbol "$str" requires explicit package name at ./script.pl lin +e 7. Execution of ./script.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
Any help would be appreciated.

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Re: Problem with basic import/export variables
by GrandFather (Saint) on Sep 10, 2007 at 01:02 UTC

    Add:

    our @ISA = ('Exporter');

    after the use vars


    DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel
      It works. Thanks.