Question

Is it possible to access value of a global variable declared, in another perl script using require?

eg.

Config.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

our $test = "stackoverflow"

Main.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use stricts;

require "Config.pl"

print "$test\n";
print "$config::test\n";

Answer 1

sure. The way you have suggested almost works. Try:

Config.pl:

use warnings;
use strict;

our $test = "stackoverflow";

and the main program:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;  

require "Config.pl";

our $test;

print "$test\n";

When you call require, the file is executed in the same namespace as the caller. So without any namespaces or my declarations any variables assigned will be globals, and will be visible to the script.