Bowen, Bruce am Sonntag, 4. September 2005 15.31: > I have a program that is monitoring communications into a PC, and based on > the message format will trigger one of multiple perl files. Most of these > files use the same variable name and my question today is, is there a way > of establishing a common library file containing all of the variables so > that when one of perl files gets called it can have access to the variables > thru this external file.
yes, 1. read perldoc perlmod 2. create a module that defines the variables 3. use them from your scripts (assumed you mean that by the term "perl files") > This would allow me to maintain one file instead > of having to edit all of the files of add the new variable. joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
