This should do what you want. I don't think there is much prettier way out. Note that when you get back from the eval, you are in the package you started with. In other words, the package foo is scoped within the eval.

my $evalstr;
{
 local (*F, $/);
 undef $/;
 open F, './foo.pl';
 $evalstr = 'package foo; ' . <F>;
}

eval $evalstr or die $@;

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update cuz the discussion on the CB shows I did not get my point thru

try: perl -e 'package foo; require "foo.pl"' with the content of foo.pl being simply print __PACKAGE__ and you will see that "main" is printed, not "foo"

-- stefp

In reply to Re: Wrapping requires in a package... by stefp
in thread Wrapping requires in a package... by suaveant

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