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Hey,

thank you all for your replies

It does seem a little weird. The part where I'm trying to execute my code is inside a sub routine that validates form fields. I only want to load Email::Valid if and only it needs to validate a e-mail field.

Anyhow, the code above worked out...however I do not wish to load it at runtime if I don't have to? Not sure if this is a good idea or not, if not , I'll just load it at runtime.

tanger

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Re^2: use lib problem.
by shmem (Chancellor) on Jun 01, 2007 at 07:50 UTC
    If you want to conditionally load modules at runtime, you want require: 
    sub validate_fields {
    ...
    if($q->param(mail)) {
        my $mod =  '/home/tanger/www/mods';
        unshift @INC, $mod
            unless $INC[0] eq $mod;
        require Email::Valid;      # to include the code
        import Email::Valid;       # to import symbols into your names
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        ...
    }
    ...
}

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Re^2: use lib problem.
by friedo (Prior) on Jun 01, 2007 at 07:42 UTC
    Well, your use statements will get executed at compile-time whether the condition is true or not. To conditionally load a module at runtime, you can do this: 
    if ( $want_to_check_email ) { 
    unshift @INC, $mod_path;
    require Email::Valid;
    Email::Valid->import;
}

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