On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:00:07AM -0500, Chris Dale wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Alex Samad wrote:
> > I have a set of constants setup in my script
> >
> > RC_OK
> > ...
> > ...
> >
> > I use LWP::Simple which also uses RC_OK, and I get a main::RC_OK
> > redifinition
> >
> > is there some way around this with out renaming my constants.
>
> You can suppress symbol importing, and then call methods the long way:
>
> use LWP::Simple qw();
> my $html = LWP::Simple::get("http://...";);
>
> Or just import what you want:
>
> use LWP::Simple qw(get);
> my $html = get("http://...";);
>
> See http://perldoc.perl.org/Exporter.html.
thanks for that. Did some more reading and it seems constants don't
really have a scope which is why I was having the problem.
>
> cd
>
>
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