Gossamer Forum: General: Perl Programming: Require not working?

Hi I'm using the following code;

Code:
eval { 
    require $CFG->{admin_root_path} . "/defs/backup_settings_database.txt";  
}; 
if ($@) { 
    print $IN->header(); 
    print "Error including libraries: $@\n"; 
    print "Make sure they exist, permissions are set properly, and paths are set correctly."; 
}

...and defs/backup_settings_database.txt contains;

Code:

 my $url =  ""; 
 my $user = ""; 
 my $pass = ""; 
 my $remote_ftp = "0"; 
 my $cwd_to     = ""; 
 my $dateorname = "date"; 

1;

I get this error when running the script though;

Quote:

[Wed Sep 3 16:17:22 2003] ace_backup.cgi: Global symbol "$dateorname" requires explicit package name at ace_backup.cgi line 184.
[Wed Sep 3 16:17:22 2003] ace_backup.cgi: Global symbol "$FTPBackup" requires explicit package name at ace_backup.cgi line 200.
[Wed Sep 3 16:17:22 2003] ace_backup.cgi: Global symbol "$url" requires explicit package name at ace_backup.cgi line 202.
[Wed Sep 3 16:17:22 2003] ace_backup.cgi: Global symbol "$user" requires explicit package name at ace_backup.cgi line 203.
[Wed Sep 3 16:17:22 2003] ace_backup.cgi: Global symbol "$pass" requires explicit package name at ace_backup.cgi line 203.
[Wed Sep 3 16:17:22 2003] ace_backup.cgi: Global symbol "$cwd_to" requires explicit package name at ace_backup.cgi line 204.
[Wed Sep 3 16:17:22 2003] ace_backup.cgi: Global symbol "$ByDateOrName" requires explicit package name at ace_backup.cgi line 207.
[Wed Sep 3 16:17:22 2003] ace_backup.cgi: Execution of ace_backup.cgi aborted due to compilation errors.

Any ideas why? The eva{} isn't showing any errors, but the variables just don't seem to be importing Frown

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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Figured it out. I needed to use 'our' (I'm assuming this is something to do with the way strict work?)

Code:
  our ($url,$user,$pass,$remote_ftp,$cwd_to,$dateorname);

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk