How to declare global constants?

[Louis]

I would like to declare a constant in a module (.pm), so other perl
scripts can use the module and the constant it contains.

I tried
use constant BASEDIR ='path_name';
in the module.

But when I use this module, perl complains that BASEDIR is a bareword.

How do you make this work?

Really appreciate your comment.

[Jim Gibson]

In article <zyeZh.8362$Dq6.6529@edtnps82>, Louis <t0*****@hotmail.com>
wrote:

I would like to declare a constant in a module (.pm), so other perl
scripts can use the module and the constant it contains.

I tried
use constant BASEDIR ='path_name';
in the module.

But when I use this module, perl complains that BASEDIR is a bareword.

How do you make this work?

Really appreciate your comment.

You should post a complete, minimal program that demonstrates the
problem. Otherwise, we are just guessing at the cause.

One guess: are you referring to BASEDIR in the program that uses the
module or the actual name <module>::BASEDIR?

This group is defunct. Try comp.lang.perl.misc in the future.

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[Louis]

Jim Gibson wrote:

You should post a complete, minimal program that demonstrates the
problem. Otherwise, we are just guessing at the cause.

One guess: are you referring to BASEDIR in the program that uses the
module or the actual name <module>::BASEDIR?

This group is defunct. Try comp.lang.perl.misc in the future.

Thanks Jim,

I forgot about the prefix <module>::
Thank you.

I will use the other group.