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sam1990 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello, I have a file that has a hash stored in it. I am trying to read that hash as it is using eval but I am getting following error: Global symbol "%hash1" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my %hash1"?) at tiny.pl line (print Dumper(\%hash1);) 14. Execution of tiny.pl aborted due to compilation errors. Please help me understand the issue here, thank you

#file.pl : my %hash1 = (hello => 1, hi =>2 ); #tiny.pl #!/home/utils/perl5/perlbrew/perls/5.24.2-021/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Path::Tiny qw( path ); use Data::Dumper; my $file = 'file.pl'; open(my $fh, '<', $file) or die "Could not open file $file"; eval($fh); close $fh; print Dumper(\%hash1);