I have two .pl files which share two array variables.

Variables don't exists in files, .pl or otherwise. Please explain what you mean.

Are you asking if code from two files can use the same variable? yes.

That said, I can't figure out why would a program use two .pl files.

Does perl behave in the same way as C++, when it comes to destructors?

What are you asking about specifically?

If all your scripts use the variables $a, $b, $c, ... @a, @b, @c, ... %a, %b, %c, ... well, it's poor style, but perfectly reasonable. Even if two of the scripts are running at the same time, they exist totally separately.

How about posting your .pl files .. if they're large, simplify them to a subset which preserves the problem.

I guess I wasn't clear in my post. Now that I read it again I see my mistake. So let me give a more detailed explanation. What I am trying to do is to parse through an html file and create objects (am using the moose module for class creation).

if(...something...) {
$n_DT[$count] = DT->new;
if($line =~ m/>(.*)</) { $n_DT[$count]->{'ID'} = $1; }
...
}

elsif(..something else)...) {
$r_DT[$count_1] = r_DT->new;
if($line =~ m/>(.*)</) { $r_DT[$count_1]->{'ID'} = $1; 
...
}
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The variables n_DT and r_DT are arrays of objects which I want to use/share between the two scripts. I am also saving the two arrays in text files. So I could possibly read the files again to create my list, but I was wondering if there was another, more efficient, way of doing this. Hope this clears my question.

The variables n_DT and r_DT are arrays of objects which I want to use/share between the two scripts.

Again with variables in files.

So I could possibly read the files again to create my list, but I was wondering if there was another, more efficient, way of doing this.

You want to share between two processes, perhaps?

Actually, sounds more like passing for one process to another rather than sharing.

Unless the second process is a fork of the first, you have to somehow convert the array to a string of bytes to pass it from one process to another. You do have choices as to how to convert the array to bytes (Storable, JSON, etc) and how you actually pass it (file, pipe, socket, etc), but efficiency is not going to be the deciding factor.

What does that mean?