Hmm, one additional question though. Is there a way to do something like "require" but on a scalar variable? So let's say I read in this module file into $the_mod. I can't obviously just say "require $the_mod"... Thanks for any more ideas. If this isn't easy, then I'll just use it as a file, but it would be slightly nicer to do this in a variable for the way I'm setup. Thanks!