Re: Passing a variable to a package function vs. a local function

[Ramprasad A Padmanabhan]

Dan Fish wrote:
I'm a bit new to this so please bear with me...

I've written a script that uses CGI.pm something like this:

use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use CGI qw(:all);
$query = new CGI;

....blah...blah...
&myfunc($query);
....blah...blah...
sub myfunc{ my ($query) = @_;
$foo=$query->param("foo");
 ...more...blah...blah...
}
Everything works fine as is, but I'm trying to take the function "myfunc"
out and put it in a separate .pm file because I need to call it from several
cgi scripts.  When I put it in the .pm file, I get something like:   

        Can't locate object method "param" via package "Trend" at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/MMC/Dex.pm line 253, <INFILE> chunk
1150.
I do have:
        use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
        use CGI qw(:all);
In the .pm file
What am I missing?

Thanks,
-Dan
If you have name the package file as say Mypackage.pm
then in your mail program you will call the function as
Mypackage::myfunc($query).
Ram



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