Re: Use with variable

perldoc -f use tells you the following:

Imports some semantics into the current package from the named module, generally by aliasing certain subroutine or variable names into your package. It is exactly equivalent to

    BEGIN { require Module; import Module LIST; }
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except that Module *must* be a bareword.

So, you can easily do it like the following:

my $module = "CGI"; 
$module->require;
$module->import;
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Update: Fixed the ugly bug I introduced. Thanks to tomhukins for spotting it.

Update 2: I should test before I promise broken things as fixed. See my reply to edan further down

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Re^2: Use with variable by tomhukins (Curate) on Sep 08, 2004 at 13:18 UTC
Module must be a bareword `my $module = "CGI"; require $module;` [download] That's an interesting bareword you use. ;-)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Use with variable by edan (Curate) on Sep 08, 2004 at 13:34 UTC
`my $module = "CGI"; $module->require; $module->import;` [download] `Can't locate object method "require" via package "CGI" (perhaps you forgot to load "CGI"?) at t.pl line 2.` -- edan	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Use with variable by Corion (Patriarch) on Sep 08, 2004 at 13:39 UTC
That's what I get for not testing my stuff :-(( So it seems the only actually working way is the ugly way of converting the module name to the file name and then requiring that file : `my $module = "CGI"; my $filename = $module; $filename =~ s!::!/!g; $filename .= ".pm"; require $filename or die "$module did not return a true value"; $module->import;` [download] (this time tested it ...)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Use with variable by edan (Curate) on Sep 08, 2004 at 13:42 UTC
Do you have something against eval? I think that's the most straightforward solution... -- edan	[reply]
Re^5: Use with variable by Corion (Patriarch) on Sep 08, 2004 at 13:48 UTC
Re^6: Use with variable by edan (Curate) on Sep 08, 2004 at 14:15 UTC
Re^6: Use with variable by Anonymous Monk on Sep 08, 2004 at 14:43 UTC
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