Re: Importing vars from one script to another

[BillKSmith]

in reply to Importing vars from one script to another

Your 'constants' are not constants at all, but normal global variables. They should work as shown. In order to satisify warnings, I had to add a use Lib '.'; to your main script to let perl find the constants.pl file. I also had to add a final 1 to the constants.pl file.

I recommend using the Readonly module to make all the constants truly constant.

[edbewald]

That did it! I thought I had tried everything but I was missing the '1'. Now it works.

And I agree 100% that these are hardly constants. I usually use Readonly module for that and will do so with this.

Thanks for all the answers everyone gave. I really appreciate it

[rovf]

That did it! I thought I had tried everything but I was missing the '1'. Now it works.

Whatever was the reason, this one can't be it.

If you require a file, the last expression in the included file must return a value which evaluates to true, otherwise your program dies. Therefore: If you had a value which evaluated to false in your earlier version, your program would not have executed, and you would have got an error message pointing out the problem. But if it already evaluated to true in your earlier version, adding a 1 doesn't change anything.