G'day jahero,

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++Athanasius showed in his response how to stop all imports with:

use File::Basename ();
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However, there may be cases where you only want to stop some, but not all, imports. Still using File::Basename as an example, let's say you wanted its dirname() function. You can specify importation of that function like this:

use File::Basename qw{dirname};
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Module documentation will often identify which functions are exported by default and which are optionally exported; however, presence of this information is by no means guaranteed. You can check for yourself by looking at the source code: @EXPORT lists the default exports and @EXPORT_OK lists the optional ones. For example, the File::Basename source code shows four default exports:

@EXPORT = qw(fileparse fileparse_set_fstype basename dirname);
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See Exporter for a lot more information on this including advanced features. For instance, to exclude basename() only, you could write:

use File::Basename qw{!basename};
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