How do i include perl files together?

[adamf]

Hi,

I have wrote a large perl function in a file function.pl

I would like to call this function from many different other perl programs but i dont want to paste a copy of the function into every file.

I just need something similar to C's #include

Thanks

 

[Rieekan]

If the perl file's directory location is in the @INC path information, you can just use:

require "function.pl";

If it isn't, use:

require "x:/path/to/file/function.pl"; # x is the drive letter if this is on an NT machine.

If you don't know what paths are set in the @INC, run this little program from the command line:

#! /usr/bin/perl

print "@INC";

 

[adamf]

Perfect, Thankyou!

 

[tsdragon]

Make sure that the last line of the "required" file looks like this:

1;

When perl requires a file, it wants a "true" value returned, otherwise it throws an error. The 1 in the last statement is the same as "true", and will be returned when the file is "required". Tracy Dryden
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