You question is unclear: Are you asking how to select from multiple modules, or are you asking how to load a module determined at run-time?

Either way, this answer appears in the Perl Cookbook from O'Reilly (co-author gnat is a PerlMonk!)

The basic answer is to use an eval block around your require and use statements. Thus you can have the module names in a string, and you can trap errors if there is a problem (such as the module being for the wrong OS).

You can use the perl variable $^O to learn what system you are on, and the perl function perlfunc:readdir to get the filenames to try to load.

In reply to Re: Modules vs. Libraries by swiftone
in thread Modules vs. Libraries by Anonymous Monk

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