importing a hash from package

[Jeff Thies]

I'm sure this is easy, but I'm not finding it...

I have a package with a heash in it:

package VARIABLES;

my %HASH;
$HASH{a}='a';

$some_scalar='some_scalar'

....

I want to refer to that hash elsewhere.

I know I can do this:

my $local_some_scalar=VARIABLE::$some_scalar;

But, how do I get at HASH? Do I have to write a reference to it in
package VARIABLES?

Cheers,
Jeff

[Steve Grazzini]

Jeff Thies <cyberjeff@sprintmail.com> wrote:

> package VARIABLES;
>
> my %HASH;
> $HASH{a}='a';
>
> $some_scalar='some_scalar'
>
> ...
>
> I want to refer to that hash elsewhere.
>
> I know I can do this:
>
> my $local_some_scalar=VARIABLE::$some_scalar;

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That's not quite right.

> But, how do I get at HASH? Do I have to write a reference to it
> in package VARIABLES?

The difference is between lexical (my) variables, which you can't
use outside the scope where they were declared, and package variables,
which are global.

You can use our() to declare package variables.

our %HASH; # %VARIABLES::HASH

Is that what you were after?

--
Steve

[Jeff Thies]

Steve Grazzini wrote:

>
> Jeff Thies <cyberjeff@sprintmail.com> wrote:

> > package VARIABLES;
> >
> > my %HASH;
> > $HASH{a}='a';
> >
> > $some_scalar='some_scalar'
> >
> > ...
> >
> > I want to refer to that hash elsewhere.
> >
> > I know I can do this:
> >
> > my $local_some_scalar=VARIABLE::$some_scalar;

> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

oops!

>
> That's not quite right.
>

> > But, how do I get at HASH? Do I have to write a reference to it
> > in package VARIABLES?

>
> The difference is between lexical (my) variables, which you can't
> use outside the scope where they were declared, and package variables,
> which are global.
>
> You can use our() to declare package variables.
>
> our %HASH; # %VARIABLES::HASH
>
> Is that what you were after?

Yes, thanks!

Jeff

>
> --
> Steve

[Tad McClellan]

Jeff Thies <cyberjeff@sprintmail.com> wrote:

> Steve Grazzini wrote:

>> The difference is between lexical (my) variables, which you can't
>> use outside the scope where they were declared, and package variables,
>> which are global.
>>
>> You can use our() to declare package variables.
>>
>> our %HASH; # %VARIABLES::HASH
>>
>> Is that what you were after?

>
> Yes,

Then see also:

"Coping with Scoping":

[url]http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Namespaces.html[/url]


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