Perl: reference to subroutine in external .pm file

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Published on 2010-04-06T13:48:52Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 13:53 UTC
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I'm having some trouble figuring out how to make a reference to a subroutine in an external .pm file.

Right now, I'm doing this :

External file

package settingsGeneral;    
sub printScreen {
    print $_[0];
}

Main

use settingsGeneral;    
my $printScreen = settingsGeneral::printScreen;
&$printScreen("test");

but this result into an error: Can't use string ("1") as a subroutine ref while "strict refs" in use

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