How to use 'require' properly?

[flexvault]

Dear Monks,

This is related to stevieb's question and his desire to use 'require' for seldom used modules:

Where in a package should 'use' be called?

I have used the following:

use ... qw( ... );

but when I use 'require', it doesn't let me select the subroutines I need for execution. If the default doesn't include what I need, then the script fails at execution time.

Is there a better way to use 'require' or am I using 'require' incorrectly?

Regards...Ed

[Athanasius]

Hello flexvault,

From use:

use Module LIST
...
... It is exactly equivalent to

BEGIN { require Module; Module->import( LIST ); }

except that Module must be a bareword.

Hope that helps,

[sundialsvc4]

Also handy is UNIVERSAL::require.   The DESCRIPTION section of this Perldoc says it all.