hello, I'm very new to perl and have come across an aggrivating issue which I have not been able to find a solution too. I'm writing test scripts that will pump messages into the application I'm testing. My design of the scripts was to have one larger framework.pl file that would include all the setup that every test will need. then I would have a test .pl file for every type of test and that perl file would just include (or require) the framework.pl file. every thing works fine until in one of the tests I need to be able to change a variable in the framework.pl file. My problem in the most basic form is this: the framework.pl file:

package framework;
use strict;
my $date = "2001-11-12";
sub testcase1
{
     print $date;
}
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the test.pl file:

require "framework.pl";

$framework::date = "2001-12-05";
&framework::testcase1;
$framework::date = "2001-11-15";
&framework::testcase1;
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the output after running this test is 2001-11-122001-11-12. the date is not being changed like I thought it would be. Does anybody know of an easy way for me to access and change frameworks $date variable from within the test.pl? Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks.

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