Re: modules and _DATA_

[Eric Walker]

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 14:43, Randy W. Sims wrote:

    On 1/23/2004 4:36 PM, Eric Walker wrote:
    > 
    > when I tried to add a package to it, I did some test and its not reading
    > the DATA anymore. Is there a certain order?
    
    __DATA__ must be in package main;
    
    #!perl
    
    use strict;
    use warnings;
    
    while (<DATA>) {
       print;
    }
    
    package Test;
    sub a {}
    1;
    
    package main; # DATA must be in main
    
    __DATA__
    this
    is my
    data
    section
    
    worked like a charm thanks, now its working but correctly time to get my handy 
dandy

print statement out...

Thanks..