Barry Brevik <>  wrote:
>  I have seen it said many times, on this list, that we should always
>  have:
>  
>    use strict;
>  
>  I have tried to use this many times, but all it does is give me
>  hundreds of errors like this: 
>  
>    Global symbol "$version" requires explicit package name at
>    domainctrl.pl line 10. Global symbol "%cmptrlist" requires explicit
>  package name at domainctrl.pl line 18. 
>  
>  All of these are variables created in the main body of the program...
>  I suppose that they are technically part of the "main" package, but
>  if strict is trying to tell me that I have to refer to these as
>  main::$version (for example), I don't think that I am willing to go
>  there.    
>  
>  Can anyone tell me what is going on here?

You have had some good answers, but the following article might help you
understand what is going on.

http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Namespaces.html

I always get plenty of those errors in new code. They tell me where I
have forgotten a declaration, or more often, identify a typo. In short,
"use strict" helps me avoid some classes of bug.

HTH

-- 
Brian Raven 

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