note kyle <p>You could wrap it in a string [doc://eval] like so: <C> for my $dbh ( @dbf ) { die $@ if ! eval "use $dbf; 1"; } </c> <p>I might be inclined to put the whole thing in a BEGIN block. <c> BEGIN { my @dbf = ...; for my $dbf ( @dbf ) { require $dbf; $dbf->import(); } } </c> <p>Either way, there's a big security risk if <c>@dbf</c> comes from an untrusted source, but I think the risk is bigger with eval. It might be useful to read the documentation for [doc://use] and [doc://require] to see how close they are to what you want to do. 803365 803365