Hi Sooraj, welcome aboard.
On Friday 12 November 2010 17:36:54 Sooraj S wrote: > Hi I am new to perl. > > I am trying to access a variable which is declared in a package. I > have kept both the files in the same directory. But still my code > errors out as ""$my_val" requires explicit package name". > > my_file.pl > ======================= > #!/usr/bin/perl > > use strict; Add use warnings. > use my_package; Please start your packages with an uppercase letters, as package names that start with a lowercase letter are reserved for pragmas. > > print "\nValue : $my_val\n"; You cannot access a lexical variable from a different module as "use" creates a scope for that. While you can make it a package-scope variables (using "use vars" or "our"), please consider providing an interface to your modules using procedures instead of variables. > > > my_package.pl This is likely my_package.pm. > ====================== > package my_package; > You forgot "use strict;" here and you again don't have "use warnings;". For more information see: * http://perl-begin.org/tutorials/bad-elements/ * http://www.onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/index.html * http://perl-begin.org/books/advanced/#pbp Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ First stop for Perl beginners - http://perl-begin.org/ <rindolf> She's a hot chick. But she smokes. <go|dfish> She can smoke as long as she's smokin'. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
