# Using export keyword
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-export-keyword/21723
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [March 11, 2019, 3:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-export-keyword/21723 "2019-03-11T03:43:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@yash](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yash)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 3:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-export-keyword/21723/1 "2019-03-11T03:43:10Z")
I am confused for the use of export in modules. In documentation I read that we use export to make functions available to user of that module . But I made a module(say A) ,which contains some functions and used export for some of those functions, in a file(f1.jl) and imported that file to another file(say f2.jl) using _include(“f1.jl”)_ and there I was able to use all the functions by calling with the module _A.functionName_ even if I didn’t use export to that particular function in module A.
Then what is the use of export??
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### Author:  [@pdeffebach](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pdeffebach)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 4:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-export-keyword/21723/2 "2019-03-11T04:11:06Z")
You should read the `Modules` section of the docs. `using` is for when you don’t want to preface `A.` to every call, and just write `functionName` directly.
iirc Julia doesn’t have a strict notion of private methods, which is important to the extensibility of methods and multiple dispatch.
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### Author:  [@yash](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yash)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 4:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-export-keyword/21723/3 "2019-03-11T04:41:34Z")
How to I use **using** in this case?? I tried it after using **include** and it threw an ArguementError: Package A not found in current path.
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### Author:  [@greg\_plowman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/greg_plowman)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 4:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-export-keyword/21723/4 "2019-03-11T04:51:50Z")
Try `using .A`
[https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/modules/#Relative-and-absolute-module-paths-1](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/modules/#Relative-and-absolute-module-paths-1)
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### Author:  [@yash](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yash)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 5:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-export-keyword/21723/5 "2019-03-11T05:00:49Z")
Thanks @greg_plowman it worked.😀