Hi Monks,

I'm trying to split up a script into a number of component scripts on the advice at All-in-one script vs independent scripts. In the code below, login.pl is loaded at the start of the script, whether or not it's actually needed. 

######### Main script 
######### index.pl

#!C:/perl5.8/bin/perl.exe
use CGI qw(:cgi);

my $query = get_param('action') || 'default';

# login.pl contains the subroutine do_login()
require "login.pl";

my %actions = (
   default  => \&default,
   login    =>  \&do_login
);

&{ $actions{$query} }

sub default {
  # show default page
}

######### Auxiliary script
######### login.pl

sub do_login {
   #process login
}

1;

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That works but I would like to load login.pl as and when it's called. How do I achieve that? Something like: 
######### Main script 
######### index.pl

#!C:/perl5.8/bin/perl.exe
use CGI qw(:cgi);

my $query = get_param('action') || 'default';

my %actions = (
   default  => \&default,
   login    =>  \&login
);

&{ $actions{$query} }

sub default {
  # show default page
}

sub login {
   require "login.pl";
}

######### Auxiliary script
######### login.pl

sub do_login {
   #process login
}

1;

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How do I accomplish what I'm trying to do above?

In reply to How to use require... by kiat

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