Theresa, one way to go about this is to create your own module which has the connection details in it (or reads from ENV/external XML file etc) and also has your data access subroutines. Then instantiate instances of this modules whereever you need to.
This is the best URL I can find which talks about packaging code up http://perl.about.com/library/weekly/aa092100a.htm?terms=module joel -----Original Message----- From: Theresa Mullin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 July 2002 20:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Subroutines Hi Everyone, I am writing a program in which I am connecting to an oracle database. I would like to put the environment variables and the connection routine into a separate subroutine, so I don’t have to keep re-copying the code. What’s the best way to go about this? Thanks, Theresa Theresa M. Mullin Programmer/Analyst Administrative Computing Northern Essex Community College 100 Elliott Way Haverhill, MA 01830 (978) 556-3757 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]