Load perl module dynamically (use $object)

[Markus Dehmann]

Can I load perl modules dynamically?

In other words, I want to do something like this:

my $obj = "Getopt::Long";
eval{ use $obj } or die($@);

But it doesn't work like that. Is such a dynamic module loading possible
at all?

Markus

 

[Brian McCauley]

(my $pkg = $package) =~ s|::|/|g; # require need a path
require "$pkg.pm";

See also UNIVERAL::require

 

[Brian McCauley]

See also UNIVERAL::require

That should, of course, say UNIVERSAL::require