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Just two suggestions:

Don't use loose .pl files. Make proper modules, with their own namespaces. perlmod is your friend.
Don't make assignment to variables inside your modules. Return the value of the calculation from a function, and use that.

What you have will be something like:

use strict;
package Module1;
use Exporter 'import';
our @EXPORT_OK = qw(compute_value);

sub compute_value {
  # do the computation
}

1; # this is required, see perldoc perlmod
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in the file "Module1.pm" and something like:

use strict;
use Module1;

my $variable1 = Module1::compute_value();
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or:

use strict;
use Module1 qw(compute_value);

my $variable1 = compute_value();
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in your main script.

[]s, HTH, Massa (κς,πμ,πλ)

In reply to Re: use, require, do or what? by massa
in thread use, require, do or what? by AKSHUN

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