#Somehow, we figure out the name of a module we need:
$module_name = 'mymodule.pm';
#Then load it:
eval 'require $module_name';
#And then try to make use of its vars and subs:
$module_name->import(); #fails (of course)

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$module_name isn't an object, so import does not apply to it. How to I get a handle on the relevant object upon which to call import? require just returns bool.

Nobody seems to do this; it's not in the camel, cookbook, here, or anywhere on the Internet (the whole Internet!), so perhaps this is the wrong approach. What I want is to load a module who's name I do not know until we get rolling, and indeed can never be a bare word, as is usual practice. Then have access to the goodies in the loaded file, which is normally achieved with import(). Any ideas?
Sincerely,
Aleksander

In reply to import() when require-d module name is variable by akujbida

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