C style header files in perl 1

[Vovin]

Hi,

I have a list of constants that I want to re-use in several *.pl and *.pm files e.g.

# boolean values
use constant TRUE => 1;
use constant FALSE => 0;

I want to put this stuff in an external file and not copy/paste it into every file that uses it. Sort of like a C++ header file.

Can anyone tell me what the best way of doing this would be? I've tried doing

do '/data/home/vovin/config/foo.cfg' or warn "failed to parse $!";

but it didn't work correctly. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.

 

[PaulTEG]

require "constants.pl";

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[Vovin]

Thanks Paul. I knew it would have to be something simplelike that. I'll give CPAN a look.

 

[MikeLacey]

That's his sig Vovin,. it's not aimed at you in particular.

Mike

I am not inscrutable.

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[PaulTEG]

Sorry about that Vovin, was running out the door, should have signed off properly ;-)

Paul
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