Ok.. thats what I thought... thanks Lou .. in my 5 year mission to wrap my brain around perl.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Luinrandir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <beginners@perl.org> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 2:27 PM Subject: Re: Package/modual question -- more > On Jul 25, Luinrandir said: > > > Question 1: > > should this be a package.pl or a modual.pm? > > If you want to be able to source the file via the > > use ModuleName; > > then the file must end in '.pm'. > > > Question 2: > > so I need to > > require 'package.pl'; > > but > > use 'modual.pm'; > > The syntax is > > use ModuleName; > > with no quotes, and no '.pm' at the end. > > > I'm still a bit cloudy on the differences.. other than modual is a package > > but a package is not a modual. > > A module is a file with a '.pm' extension. Modules usually define at > least one package, sometimes more. A package is a namespace, a > compartment to hold variables, functions, etc. > > > Question 3: > > I am using this. > > ReadWrite:WriteData($filename,@Data); > > In teh package am I to use $_[0] and $_[1]? > > or can I use $filename and @Data? > > In your ReadWrite package's WriteData() function, you will get the > arguments from @_. $_[0] will correspond to $filename, and everything > from $_[1] to the end of @_ will correspond to the elements in @Data. > > -- > Jeff "japhy" Pinyan % How can we ever be the sold short or > RPI Acacia Brother #734 % the cheated, we who for every service > http://japhy.perlmonk.org/ % have long ago been overpaid? > http://www.perlmonks.org/ % -- Meister Eckhart > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
