#! perl -w use strict; package MyModule; sub isFile { my $file = shift; # a file in local directory expected my $verbose = shift; # optional if (! -f $file) { print STDERR "*** no such file $file in current directory\n"; return 0; } else { print STDERR "... isFile $file\n" if $verbose; return 1; } } # more subs ... 1;