ggal
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Apr 23, 2010, 9:33 AM
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Basic Question about Perl Modules
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Hi,
I'm trying to write a Perl Module for learning purposes and I have a few doubts regarding the usage of several .pm files within a module.
While writing the module, I realised I was trying to cram a bit too much in it, and therefore I decided to split it into 3 sub-modules: there's a core .pm file and then 2 "optional" .pm files. The idea is that a "user" would surely include the 1st .pm in his script, while the two supplementary "submodules" contain routines the user will optionally want to look at only AFTER having done a run of the core module.
For instance, let's say the first module outputs a TSV data file (eg use computeTSV). Then, the second data file might compute and add a further column of data to such tsv (eg use computeTSV::addScores). Same story for the third (eg computerTSV::getNetworkRepresentation).
Now my problem is: there are some constants and a couple of subroutines that I would happily keep, unchanged, in all of the three "submodules". E.g. I have the TSV header field names, but also some db connection subroutines,etc, that appear identical in the 3 .pm files.
In order not to have 3 copies of said constants/subroutines, I was considering adding a 4th file to the mix, (something like a .h file in the C programming language) where I'll dump all the these global constants, subroutines, and nothing else. Let's call this file globals.pm. Does this make sense or is there a better way to do this?
Now my question: it's clear I would like to export ALL of the content of global.pm in my three modules files. Is there a way to do this? Or, do I have to manually add ALL of the constants and subroutines in global.pm using the
@EXPORT = qw(...);
paradigm?
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Giuseppe
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