How about setting it a "local" variable? And I think that you'd better send such a question to a perl mailing list. Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > I have a set of constants setup in my script > > RC_OK > ... > ... > > I use LWP::Simple which also uses RC_OK, and I get a main::RC_OK > redifinition > > is there some way around this with out renaming my constants. > > Alex > >