Howdy Monks. I have some subroutines I am using a lot so I decided to try to put them into a custom-made module. Here they are: 
package sqlsupport;
use strict;
use DBI;

require Exporter;
our @ISA = qw(Exporter);
our @EXPORT_OK = qw();

sub connectdb {
    my $database = shift;
    my $driver   = "mysql";
    my $server   = "localhost";
    my $url      = "DBI:$driver:$database:$server";
    my $user     = "perl\_interpreter";
    my $password = "crawdad";
    my $dbh = DBI->connect( $url, $user, $password ) or die "connectdb
+ can't connect to mysql: $!\n";
    return $dbh;
}

sub dosql {
    my @results = ();
    my ($dbh,$sqlstatement,$response)= @_;
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sqlstatement);
    my @row;
    $sth->execute || die "Could not execute MySQL statement: $sqlstate
+ment";
    if ($response) {
    while (@row=$sth->fetchrow_array) { push(@results, [ @row ]); }
    }
    $sth->finish();
    return @results;
}


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I am told by this place that I can put my module into a special directory and reference it like so: 
use lib qw(/myPerl/myModules/);
use sqlsupport;

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When I do that, I get no error on the use statements, but perl says it can find either of the subroutines. I have not gone through the whole make, make build, etc. process because I thought that is only necessary if you are inserting the module into the local lib structure. Maybe not, tho.

Your advice appreciated.

Steve

In reply to Custom module problems by cormanaz

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