I was hoping that someone can help me with this issue. I was able to create a use custom Perl modules from my previous employment, but am having an issue at this new job. Unlike the old job, I am not using the server version of perl, but instead, installed a local version to my home directory.

In this directory (/home/myhomedrive/script/prog1) I have this program called dupCheck.pl:

#!/home/myhomedrive/opt/perl/bin/perl
#use strict;
use warnings;


use lib '/home/myhomedrive/scripts/lib';

use customPerlMod;

my $string = "  ll ";
$string = trim ( $string );
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As you can see from the code above, I have the custom module here: /home/myhomedrive/scripts/lib

Here is a snippet of my custom module (I have several different subroutines in it, but for the purposes of this question, I am showing only a few pieces of code):

#!/home/myhomedrive/opt/perl/bin/perl
package customPerlMod;

sub trim($)
{
    my $string = shift;
    $string =~ s/^\s+//;
    $string =~ s/\s+$//;
    return $string;
}

# Left trim function to remove leading whitespace
sub ltrim($)
{
    my $string = shift;
    $string =~ s/^\s+//;
    return $string;
}

# Right trim function to remove trailing whitespace
sub rtrim($)
{
    my $string = shift;
    $string =~ s/\s+$//;
    return $string;
}


1;
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when I run the program, I get this at the command prompt:

./dupCheck.pl
Undefined subroutine &main::trim called at ./dupCheck.pl line 20, <DAT
+A> line 960.
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any idea what I am doing wrong?

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