Hey peeps,

I have the joyful task of customizing a bunch of scripts. In trying to make them strict, I encountered the following problem. This file, config.cgi (abbreviated) 

$config{'username'} = "zxcvb";
$config{'password'} = "zzzzz";

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etc, is pulled in through a do: 
do 'config.cgi';

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So I tried this: 
use strict;
use warnings;
my %config = {};
do 'config.cgi';

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This parses OK, but when I dump %config, there's nothing there.

And if I remove the my %config, the script dies saying %config is not defined.

So, why does strict require the "my %config", but not populate it on "doing the do".

very perplexed, thoughts welcomed...

cLive ;-)

In reply to "do" what? by cLive ;-)

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