I do work for a company that does marketing for nearly 100 car dealerships around the US. A big part of this is importing and maintaining data for each dealership from a variety of older systems, and doing this requires a large number of config variables and even custom subs. Obviously, dumping these all in one huge .pm isn't a good option, and as far as I know, I can't "use" a path containing a variable (a keyword representing the dealer).

Or to put it another way, I have a folder called Config that contains x.pm, y.pm, z.pm, etc. where x, y, and z are dealer keywords. When I run a data import, I have a variable containing the dealer keyword, and I want to use just that one .pm, let's say x.pm. What's the best way to go about doing this? Up to now, I've been loading the file contents and using eval, but I'm wondering if there's a more elegant / more efficient way to do it.

In reply to Best way to dynamically use a .pm? by TJPride

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