«

i have created a module which does not have any class, "meslibhdr.pm".
all it has is has tables and arrays. Then i created a module, "abc.pm",
that use two modules "xyz.pm" and "meslibhdr.pm". whereas xyz.pm to
have used meslibhdr.pm. The problem is that the code that is taking the
refrence of meslibhdr.pm is not executing, that is, no result is
populating.

thanks in advance


sush

sks wrote:
> i have created a module which does not have any class, "meslibhdr.pm".
> all it has is has tables and arrays.

What the heck is a table? What does it mean for a module to "have" an
array?

> Then i created a module, "abc.pm",
> that use two modules "xyz.pm" and "meslibhdr.pm". whereas xyz.pm to
> have used meslibhdr.pm. The problem is that the code that is taking the
> refrence of meslibhdr.pm is not executing, that is, no result is
> populating.
>
> thanks in advance

Thanks in advance for what? You haven't asked anyone to do anything.
You certainly haven't provided any information that would enable anyone
to debug your problem.

Please read the Posting Guidelines for this group. Then follow them.
Post a short but complete program that demonstrates your problem. Then
maybe someone can help you.

Paul Lalli

"sks" <> wrote in message
news: oups.com...
> i have created a module which does not have any class, "meslibhdr.pm".
> all it has is has tables and arrays. Then i created a module, "abc.pm",
> that use two modules "xyz.pm" and "meslibhdr.pm". whereas xyz.pm to
> have used meslibhdr.pm. The problem is that the code that is taking the
> refrence of meslibhdr.pm is not executing, that is, no result is
> populating.

Please post a small but complete example which reproduces the problem:

1. a small but complete "meslibhdr.pm"
2. a small but complete "abc.pm"
3. a small but complete "xyz.pm"
4. a small but complete Perl-program which calls the 3 modules as described
in your original post and which demonstrates the fact that no result is
populated by some appropriate print statements.

--
Klaus

sks wrote:
> i have created a module which does not have any class, "meslibhdr.pm".
> all it has is has tables and arrays. Then i created a module, "abc.pm",
> that use two modules "xyz.pm" and "meslibhdr.pm". whereas xyz.pm to
> have used meslibhdr.pm. The problem is that the code that is taking the
> refrence of meslibhdr.pm is not executing, that is, no result is
> populating.

require (or use) will only load one file once.

If the file that's loaded lacks a "package" declaration then it will get
loaded into whatever namespace was current when the first use/require
was encountered. Give the module its own namespace then export symbols
into the namspaces of the modules that use it.

What you are doing BTW is creating a Perl4-style library and giving it a
..pm suffix. Simply giving a Perl4-style library a .pm suffix does not
make it a well behaved module.

perldoc Exporter
perldoc perlmod