> On Feb 4, Dan Muey said:
>
> ># for old time's sake we'll just use our favorite module
> >use Foo::Monkey qw(:Foo :Bar -doamazingthings);
>
> Well, depending on what you want to do with the arguments,
> you might want to use the Exporter module to handle exporting
> functions, variables, etc.
>
> perldoc perlmod (look for "Perl Modules")
> perldoc Exporter
I do use Exporter actually should've mentioned that sorry, I'll check out your
perldocs to.
Thanks
>
> When you say
>
> use Module qw( args go here );
>
> this is translated into
>
> BEGIN {
> require Module;
> Module->import(qw( args go here ));
> }
>
> Thus, you need an 'import' method in Module::.
>
> package Module;
>
> sub import {
> my $class = shift;
> print "You gave me (@_)\n";
> }
>
Perfect! Exactly what I needed.
> It's up to you to do something with @_.
>
Thanks Jeff
> --
> Jeff "japhy" Pinyan
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