On Dec 29, 2007 8:32 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Could someone tell me if this is possible and if it is how I do it. I > have the following two file; > > file1.pl > --- > print "$testvar\n"; > --- > > file2.pl > --- > my $testvar = 37; > use "file1.pl"; > --- > > If I run file2.pl (perl file2.pl) I will of course only see a newline. > But is it possible to export the testvar to file1.pl? >
Hi, You can do what you wanted by declaring the variable $testvar with 'our': $ cat t1.pl print $testvar; $ cat t2.pl use strict; our $testvar = 123; require 't1.pl'; $ perl t2.pl 123 But wait, this way above is not good practice in perl programming. You'd better write something like below: $ cat t1.pl sub myprint { print $testvar; } 1; $ cat t2.pl use strict; require 't1.pl'; our $testvar = 123; myprint(); $ perl t2.pl 123 Surely this is one way I showed. There are more ways to do it,like using the OO,etc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/