Thanks for the hint - mainly, I'd misplaced the $ sign (story of my life...).
The problem is by no means fixed yet, as there are several other components which have been kind of bashed to fit and need to be straightened out, but I think I now know what to do. Rgds, GStC. -----Original Message----- From: Ovid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 8:09 PM To: Graeme St. Clair; beginners-cgi@perl.org Subject: RE: Use Strict --- "Graeme St. Clair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now I have another Q arising out of this. I have an irreducible pair > of 'requires explicit package name' msgs that I can't see how to fix. > One > example is:- > > ...perl perl perl > require 'bunch_of_constants.pl'; > ...perl perl perl > $html .= <<EOF; > ...html html html > <form action="$one_constant" target="_blank" method="POST" name="Data > Request" onSubmit="..."> ...html html html EOF > > $one_constant is defined in bunch_of_constants.pl, which is in the > path all right, and which is not a package. I've tried > bunch_of_constants::$one_constant and main::$one_constant, but neither > achieved anything. What needs to change can depend upon what is in "bunch_of_constants.pl". If, in that script, you've declared your variables with "my", then you will not be able to easily get at them. You can create a wrapper subroutine that returns them, however. If they are truly package variables, though, then you determine the package that they're in and you put the dollar sign at the front of the variable name (assuming, in this case, that they're in the "main" package): $main::one_constant However, I would urge you to turn "bunch_of_constants.pl" into a proper module and using Exporter. References: perldoc -f my perldoc -f package perldoc perlmod perldoc Exporter Cheers, Ovid ===== Silence is Evil http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/philosophy/decency.html Ovid http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=17000 Web Programming with Perl http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
