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in reply to Multiple Files, One Script Possible?

I think that the confusion here is that inclusion of a file is generally tied closely to the specification of a separate package namespace. This is a good idea (to avoid collisions between variable and subroutine names), but isn't really required. Consider program foo.pl:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use lib '.'; use Inc1; use Inc2; print "Here we go!\n"; foo1(); foo2(); print "All done.\n";

If modules Inc1.pm is specified as:

# first include file sub foo1 { print( "This is a test from foo1.\n" ); } 1;

and Inc2.pm is:

# second include file sub foo2 { print( "This is a test from foo2.\n" ); } 1;

You get the expected results -- that subroutines foo1 and foo2 are called from their corresponding modules.

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