Re: conditionally include a module

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See use:

It is exactly equivalent to BEGIN { require Module; import Module LIST; }

So, do just that, except possibly without the BEGIN block, if you want to delay the decision further:

# use Win32::OLE;
# becomes

if ($^O eq 'MSWin32') { # dunno about Cygwin
    require Win32::OLE;
    Win32::OLE->Option( Warn => 3 ); # to get quicker/better feedback 
+on errors
};
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Re^2: conditionally include a module by ForgotPasswordAgain (Vicar) on Aug 23, 2007 at 10:09 UTC
Just a little note on top of that. The `import` is what handles arguments you normally pass to `use`, so if you do something like: `use Whatever::Module qw(funky);` [download] you have to add a `Whatever::Module->import(qw(funky));` after your `require`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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