note bobn <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-256744"> <p>Actually, better not to export at all: <br /> <br /> in MyModule.pm: <code> package MyModule; sub new { bless {}, shift } sub foo { "do some foo stuff" } 1; </code> and in the calling code: <code> use MyModule; my $o = new MyModule; $o->foo(); </code> $o is an object. It can have data, but in this case, it is just a way to tell perl where to find the subroutine foo(). This means you could have several different modules, each with a routine named 'foo;, and by using the object each module returns (customarily) from the call to new(), you can tell them apart. Whereas if you have the misfortune to use 2 modules that both export foo into your namespace, who knows what happens? </p><p> </p>--Bob Niederman, http://bob-n.com</p><p>All code given here is UNTESTED unless otherwise stated.</p> </div></div> 303965 303972