I'm trying to be lazy and create a generic order-processing script that will take a value from a database and use that value to determine which package whould be 'use'd at run-time for vendor-specific functions. For example, I would like to do something similar to the following: 
sub getVendorData {
   my ($code) = @_;
   my $returnedVal = 0;
   if($code =~ m/&lt%(\w+)%>/) {  
      # need to do something special with this vendor
      my $module = $1;
      # $module is the package name 
      # (it could be one of 7 different values)
      # where we'll add any custom stuff that needs to happen for a 
      # particular vendor
      use Modules::$process;  # for example 
      my $vendor = $process->new();  # for example
      my $returnedVal = $vendor->getVendorData();
   }
   return $returnedVal;
}

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I would prefere to do something like the above, instead of a large if/else statement, that way, when I add a new vendor - I need only add the associated package to the Modules directory and be up and running - instead of modifying the if/else to include the new condition. Any ideas if this is even possible? Richard Luck Pif Magazine

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