[PLUG-Devel] Perl Question: Sourcing variables?

[Eric "Shubes"]

Thanks, Dan. This is what I was hoping to find!
I think that either method will work sufficiently for my needs.

daniel at wolstenholme.net wrote:
> If you absolutely must share variables between different Perl scripts, I think 
> you'd probably do it the same way: just use environment variables.  To access 
> env variables in Perl, refer to them as "$ENV{ENVVARNAME}" (I think, my Perl is 
> a little rusty).  Another way, if there's lots of them, or you'd prefer to not 
> waste environment space on program-specific variables, is to place them into a 
> separate Perl file ("module"), and include that file with "use".  You can read 
> about this by typing "perldoc -f use" at the command line.
> 
> However, the best thing to do, in my opinion, is to go back and see why you 
> have architected things this way to begin with; do you really need to share 
> variables between different programs?  Perhaps these different, disparate 
> programs could be rolled together into one larger program, if they're all 
> closely related and doing very similar things.  You may find that, instead of 
> just variables, they could also share subroutines.  Even if you insist on 
> having differently-named commands (instead of "programname -opt") to select the 
> different modes or functions, this is easy to do with one larger program by 
> symlinking all the commands to a single executable (like busybox does), and 
> then have your program check an environment variable to see what name it was 
> called with.
> 
> Dan
> 
>> ----Original Message----
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>> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:54:50 -0700
>> From: "Eric \"Shubes\"" <plug at shubes.net>
>> Subject: [PLUG-Devel] Perl Question: Sourcing variables?
>> To: plug-devel at lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
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>> In an effort to polish my virtually non-existent Perl skills, I'm attempting
>> to translate some bash scripts I have written into perl.
>>
>> The several bash scripts scripts share several environment variables, which
>> are obtained by sourcing a separate bash script that sets the variables:
>> . config-file
>>
>> In my searching this morning I haven't found a 'nice' way to do this in
>> perl, so I figure I'd ask the experts. :) What is the 'preferred' way (or
>> even a 'nice' way) of making common variables available to several different
>> perl scripts?
>>
>> -- 
>> -Eric 'shubes'
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-Eric 'shubes'