The problem is that use calls are evaluated at BEGIN time, while your lexical variable declarations are called after that. Although use lib LIST does not try to import a module, it's still a compile-time pragma, and to my knowledge, those are still evaluated at BEGIN time.

So, I recommend trying this: 

my $mod_path; # or @mod_path, if you're so inclined.
BEGIN { $mod_path = '/home/ripenapp/perl_mods'; }
use lib $mod_path;
use Email::Valid;

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What this does is ensure that a value is assigned in $mod_path before use lib $mod_path is called -- as use calls are implicitly wrapped in BEGIN blocks (see use and lib) and BEGIN blocks are executed sequentially in the order of definition (see perlmod).

By the way, you do use strict, right? use lib $mod_path ought to complain in your example code, as the variable hasn't been assigned a value before use lib is called...

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In reply to Re: use lib problem. by vrk
in thread use lib problem. by tanger

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