Re: Including a module

At 04:41 PM 8/16/00 -0700, bobmin(at)nidlink.com wrote:
>  Adding the line;
>
>require "spiderlib.pl";
>
>  To the top of the file with the other required auxilliary files causes
>an error 500 with an error message of;
>
>spiderlib.pl did not return a true value at ss_promain_beta.pl line 17.

Basically, make sure that any file you will be 'require'ing or 'use'ing end 
in a line containing '1;'.  That way, the file will be guaranteed to return 
a true value.  (The return value of the last command executed in the file 
is returned in a 'require' or 'use' call.)

As an aside, if you are going to the trouble of putting the code into a 
separate file (and I wholeheartedly agree with this approach), you might 
want to think about reading the docs on modules, and using a .pm file 
instead of a .pl file.

-JEV
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