difference between 'use' and 'require'

rup173 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

in Functions use and require which will throw an error on failure to add the semantics?

20041122 Edit by ysth: change title from "error"

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Re: difference between 'use' and 'require' by Joost (Canon) on Nov 22, 2004 at 10:05 UTC
They both do. Take a look at the manual page for use and the manual page for require, which should be available on your system as `perldoc -f use` and `perldoc -f require` "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: difference between 'use' and 'require' by Arunbear (Prior) on Nov 22, 2004 at 13:36 UTC
It's easy to test this yourself: `>perl -e "use Some::Bogus::Package;" Can't locate Some/Bogus/Package.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl561/ +Perl/lib C:/Perl561/Perl/site/lib .) BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.` [download] `>perl -e "require Some::Bogus::Package;" Can't locate Some/Bogus/Package.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl561/ +Perl/lib C:/Perl561/Perl/site/lib .)` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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