I don't know how late you can get the information that you need, however if you don't need it before actual execution of code, this may do what you want.

package SomethingOrAnother;

BEGIN {
  my @incoming;
  my $otherdata;
  my $table;
}

INIT {
  local $/;
  $table = <$otherdata>;
}

sub import {
  my $self = shift;
  @incoming = @_;
  my ($caller) = caller;
  $otherdata = *{"$caller\::DATA"};
  *{"$caller\::table"} = \${"$self\::table"};
}

1;

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Update: Noticed you used $table so made it into an export.

Hope this helps.

antirice    
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In reply to Re: Getting the DATA section of one module in the import() of another by antirice
in thread Getting the DATA section of one module in the import() of another by princepawn

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