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Re^3: how to create a constant file and use it in other file

by pc88mxer (Vicar)
on Jul 16, 2008 at 00:24 UTC ( [id://697834]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: how to create a constant file and use it in other file
in thread how to create a constant file and use it in other file

Then just add:
our $const1;
to MyConst.pm (just before the Readonly declaration.)

Update: To use a variable in another package without requiring a prefix, you would have to import the symbol from the other package. The standard way to do this is to have MyConst be a subclass of Exporter.

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Re^4: how to create a constant file and use it in other file
by perlfan99 (Sexton) on Jul 16, 2008 at 00:33 UTC
    is there a way to export all constants instead of listing each one of them? and also a way to importing all of in another file?
      See the documentation for Exporter. Basically anything you list in @EXPORT_OK will be available for import by name into other modules which use the exporting module, and anything you list in @EXPORT will be imported automatically into useing modules. It's generally considered better style to use @EXPORT_OK, or to use a named tag in %EXPORT_TAGS, but if the whole purpose of your module is to provide constants @EXPORT may be OK.

      Your module might look something like this:

      package MyConst; use warnings; use strict; use base 'Exporter'; use vars qw(@EXPORT_OK %EXPORT_TAGS); @EXPORT_OK = qw($const1); %EXPORT_TAGS = (all => \@EXPORT_OK); # ...

      And the module using it would begin like this:

      use MyConst qw(:all);

      It took me a while but I finally got something that works as you want:

      ##### MyConst.pm ##### package MyConst; use warnings; use strict; use Readonly (); require Exporter; our @ISA = qw(Exporter); our @EXPORT = qw(); Readonly::Scalar our $const1 => 1; Readonly::Array our @array => qw(x y z); Readonly::Hash our %hash => (abc => 123, def => 456); sub foo { 'foobar' } my $package = __PACKAGE__; no strict 'refs'; while (my $sym = each %{ "$package\::" }) { # skip internals next if $sym =~ /^(?:BEGIN|EXPORT|ISA)$/; if (defined ${ $sym }) { push @EXPORT, "\$$sym"; } elsif (defined %{ $sym }) { push @EXPORT, "\%$sym"; } elsif (defined @{ $sym }) { push @EXPORT, "\@$sym"; } elsif (defined &{ $sym }) { push @EXPORT, "$sym"; } } 1; __END__

      Note 1: the position of our combined with Readonly is tricky. Using our Readonly::Scalar $const1 => 1 instead won't export $const1, but won't complain either.

      Note 2: be careful to not import any other symbols from other modules (e.g. Data::Dumper exports Dumper by default).

      ##### test.pl ##### # Uncomment to see Exporter's magic #BEGIN { $Exporter::Verbose = 1 } use MyConst; use Data::Dumper (); use strict; use warnings; print Data::Dumper->Dump([$const1, \@array, \%hash], [qw(*const1 *arra +y *hash)]), "\n"; print 'foo() = ', foo(), "\n"; __END__

      Thanks to Abigail's code referenced by zentara on Re: Listing the functions of a package / methods of an object.

      Update: There's a simpler method, which is to export a hash and make everything to be exported a member of that hash, so there's only 1 element to export.

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