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in reply to Better way to define global variables

Any chance you have another Utilities.pm lying around? Try: 

use strict;
use Utilities;

print $INC{'Utilities.pm'},"\n";
print "This is the value for SYS_DIR=$SYS_DIR";

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and see whether you get the correct path.

I have no problems with your code after making choroba's proposed changes.

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