1Module::Load(3)       User Contributed Perl Documentation      Module::Load(3)
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NAME

6       Module::Load - runtime require of both modules and files
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SYNOPSIS

9               use Module::Load;
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11           my $module = 'Data:Dumper';
12           load Data::Dumper;      # loads that module
13           load 'Data::Dumper';    # ditto
14           load $module            # tritto
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16           my $script = 'some/script.pl'
17           load $script;
18           load 'some/script.pl';      # use quotes because of punctuations
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20           load thing;             # try 'thing' first, then 'thing.pm'
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22           load CGI, ':standard'   # like 'use CGI qw[:standard]'
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DESCRIPTION

25       "load" eliminates the need to know whether you are trying to require
26       either a file or a module.
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28       If you consult "perldoc -f require" you will see that "require" will
29       behave differently when given a bareword or a string.
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31       In the case of a string, "require" assumes you are wanting to load a
32       file. But in the case of a bareword, it assumes you mean a module.
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34       This gives nasty overhead when you are trying to dynamically require
35       modules at runtime, since you will need to change the module notation
36       ("Acme::Comment") to a file notation fitting the particular platform
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39       "load" elimates the need for this overhead and will just DWYM.
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Rules

42       "load" has the following rules to decide what it thinks you want:
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44       ·   If the argument has any characters in it other than those matching
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47       ·   If the argument matches only "[\w:']", it must be a module
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49       ·   If the argument matches only "\w", it could either be a module or a
50           file. We will try to find "file" first in @INC and if that fails,
51           we will try to find "file.pm" in @INC.  If both fail, we die with
52           the respective error messages.
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Caveats

55       Because of a bug in perl (#19213), at least in version 5.6.1, we have
56       to hardcode the path seperator for a require on Win32 to be "/", like
57       on Unix rather than the Win32 "\". Otherwise perl will not read it's
58       own %INC accurately double load files if they are required again, or in
59       the worst case, core dump.
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61       "Module::Load" can not do implicit imports, only explicit imports.  (in
62       other words, you always have to specify expliclity what you wish to
63       import from a module, even if the functions are in that modules'
64       @EXPORT)
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AUTHOR

67       This module by Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>.
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69       Thanks to Jonas B. Nielsen for making explicit imports work.
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72       This module is copyright (c) 2002 Jos Boumans <kane@cpan.org>.  All
73       rights reserved.
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75       This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it
76       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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80perl v5.8.8                       2004-06-02                   Module::Load(3)
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