quick perl question

[phil at 1918.com (Phil Buckley)]

Ahhh, that was it...

Thanks
Phil

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On 2/10/00 at 4:57 PM John Chambers,,,781-647-1813 wrote:

><jabr at blu.ORG> scribbled:
>
>	On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 Phil Buckley <phil at infoinsomniax.com> wrote:
>
>	> A bit off topic, but I know someone out there will have this on the top
>	> of their head... 
>	> 
>	> I want to pull in a cgi script that holds a handful of common functions.
>	> I thought the proper syntax was something like: 
>	> 
>	> #!/usr/bin/perl
>	> 
>	> use "common.cgi";
>	>
>	> but apparently it isn't.
>	> 
>	> Can someone please gimme a quick dope-slap and remind me.
>
>	*thwap*
>
>	    use CGI qw/:standard/;
>
>Nice slap, but wrong answer.  This doesn't do the same thing at
>all, and it's not what was asked for.  More likely, the answer
>should be:
>
>	require "common.cgi";
>
>This will read in the file, and compile its contents into the
>program.  It's a run-time command, unlike "use", which happens
>at compile time.  The "use" command also does some other things
>that you probably don't want done if you're just trying to load
>in a few of your own routines.
>
>Note that "common.cgi" should end with:
>	1;
>
>The require command expects a return value that tells it whether
>the package thinks it was loaded successfully.  This tells require
>that everything was loaded OK (and a second require of the same file
>will be a no-op).
>
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