On Friday 18 June 2004 09:57, Randy W. Sims wrote: > Joseph Paish wrote:
-- a bunch of stuff deleted > > i am using packages to break up a large piece of code into smaller pieces > > I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish. If you are going to have > no subroutines or variables defined for other packages to use, then what > you're referring to is really a subscript(?). If that's the case you > don't need a package declaration, and instead of require > 'path/to/script.pl' you should use do 'path/to/script.pl' > > However, you can have free code in a module. You would construct it in > the same way as your second example, but leave out the reference to > 'PackageName ;' > > C<use> and C<require> basically invoke C<do> as part of their > functionality. See `perldoc -f require` and `perldoc -f use` for example > psuedo-code. > > Randy. thanks. i didn't even know about the existence of "do". after reading up on it, i think that it does exactly what i need done (writing standalone pieces of code that i will later call from a "master" program). this simplifies things a lot. joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
