Re: How do I dynamically declare a package name for

I'd use require:

require $module;
import $module;
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Re: Re: How do I dynamically declare a package name for by hdp (Beadle) on Apr 27, 2001 at 16:22 UTC
The caveat here is that since you're not giving require a bareword, you don't get the benefit of the filename niceties it would give you; in other words, you can't use `$module = "Foo::Bar"` and have require do the right thing (unless the right thing is to load a file called, literally, 'Foo::Bar'). It's been my experience that people don't really expect that, and sometimes miss the fact that the error message says "Can't find Foo::Bar in @INC..." instead of "Can't find Foo/Bar.pm in @INC..." hdp.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re: How do I dynamically declare a package name for
by hdp (Beadle) on Apr 27, 2001 at 16:22 UTC

require

$module = "Foo::Bar"

It's been my experience that people don't really expect that, and sometimes miss the fact that the error message says "Can't find Foo::Bar in @INC..." instead of "Can't find Foo/Bar.pm in @INC..."

hdp.

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