No. perldoc -f require :

... In other words, if you try this:

         require Foo::Bar;    # a splendid bareword
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The require function will actually look for the "Foo/Bar.pm" file in the directories specified in the @INC array.

But if you try this:

         $class = 'Foo::Bar';
         require $class;      # $class is not a bareword
     #or
         require "Foo::Bar";  # not a bareword because of the ""
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The require function will look for the "Foo::Bar" file in the @INC array and will complain about not finding "Foo::Bar" there.

In this case you can do:

         eval "require $class";
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...

Personally, I've used UNIVERSAL::require, which allows me to do

  "Win32::Service"->require()
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but I don't think that UNIVERSAL::require is really fit for production use.

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