Damn it's tough searching the web with terms like "perl", "dynamic", "use", etc...

Anyway, I'd like to know if it's possible to do the following: 
$dynamic_configuration = 'CONF-A';
use $dynamic_configuration;

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Then my PERL program would have the variables and methods contained in CONF-A.pm at least this is what I would like to happen...rather than the compile errors.

...BUT...that doesn't seem to work, so is there a way to accomplish this?

Here are some ideas I've thought of already: 
if ($A) {
  use CONF-A;
} elsif ($B) {
  use CONF-B;
} elsif ($C) {
  use CONF-C;
}

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I'd rather not have to change all my programs to add CONF-D, E, and F.

The other possibility is that there would be a CONF.pm file containing: 
%conf = (CONF-A => 'foo', etc...,
         CONF-B => 'bar', etc...,
         CONF-C => 'baz', etc...);

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The problem with that is that the CONF.pm file can get very large and I would prefer to keep such a large configuration out of memory and not have such a monster to edit.

Would it be possible to use "require" instead of "use"? I'm not entirely sure how that would work, I thought maybe I could do this: 
$x = 'A';
eval "require CONF-$x";
import ????? qw(var1 var2...);

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But the ????? part trips me up.

...ack...

Anyone have any pointers or solutions to this?

THANKS!

Tosh

In reply to Are dynamic 'use' statements possible? by tosh

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