File inclusion

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

Say I created a file, filled it with Perl subs, and I want to include it in another file without having to worry about scope issues and the like. Is there any compile-time (in BEGIN {}?) mechanism that would allow me to do that? (Optimally leaving the separate file as is.)

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Re: File inclusion by sweetblood (Prior) on May 12, 2005 at 01:27 UTC
check out perldoc perlmod as well as tachyon's Simple Module Tutorial HTH Sweetblood	[reply]
Re: File inclusion by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on May 12, 2005 at 01:58 UTC
It sounds like you're looking for require or use. Caution: Contents may have been coded under pressure.	[reply]
Re: File inclusion by ambrus (Abbot) on May 12, 2005 at 09:04 UTC
See Including files.	[reply]
Re^2: File inclusion by Cap'n Steve (Friar) on May 13, 2005 at 04:26 UTC
Thanks for the link! I wasn't aware that you could do so much with do().	[reply]
Re: File inclusion by Cap'n Steve (Friar) on May 12, 2005 at 07:01 UTC
I'm sorry to say that the answer is no. I asked this exact question a while back and discovered that there's no way to do it without either: Creating a full-blown module. Messing with symbols in the included file. Qualifying every included variable and subroutine with the package name. I too wish there was an include() funtion that behaved as if you'd just pasted the included code on the same line as the include statement.	[reply]