I need to include a header/boilerplate file in several Perl scripts. At this point, I'm using it as a module, but it's a big kludge. Essentially, I want the functionality that you have in C, where you can just #include the file, and it's evaluated in the scope of the file doing the #include'ing.
I've considered using: do "<file>"; but it just doesn't seem to be the best solution. This header file needs to do operations in the main:: namespace (like getting command line arguments, etc), which is why doing it as a module is not working too well. Does anybody have any suggestions?
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There are 4 ways to do what you want. The closest is probably 'do'
perldoc -f do
I would recommend the module approach as has already been suggested:
perldoc -f use perldoc -f require
At a lower level, you can read the file into a scalar and 'eval' it:
perldoc -f eval
Regards, Randy.
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