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\"perl-use-require-difference\"<\/p>\n

|| use Vs require in perl || What is the difference between use and require?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Except of course that use is evaluated at compile time where as require is evaluated at run time in other word, A use anywhere in the code will be evaluated when the code is run compiled, but require – import’s can only get evaluated when encoutered.<\/p>\n

The differences are many and often subtle:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. use only expects a bareword, require can take a bareword or an expression<\/li>\n
  2. use is evaluated at compile-time, require at run-time<\/li>\n
  3. use implicitly calls the import method of the module being loaded, require does not<\/li>\n
  4. use excepts arguments in addition to the bareword (to be passed to import), require does not<\/li>\n
  5. use does not behave like a function (i.e can’t be called with parens, can’t be used in an expression, etc), whereas require does<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    do $file is like eval `cat $file`, except the former:
    \n1.1: searches @INC and updates %INC.
    \n1.2: bequeaths an *unrelated* lexical scope on the eval’ed code.<\/p>\n

    require $file is like do $file, except the former:<\/strong>
    \n2.1: checks for redundant loading, skipping already loaded files.
    \n2.2: raises an exception on failure to find, compile, or execute $file.<\/p>\n

    require Module is like require “Module.pm”, except the former:<\/strong>
    \n3.1: translates each “::” into your system’s directory separator.
    \n3.2: primes the parser to disambiguate class Module as an indirect object.<\/p>\n

    use Module is like require Module, except the former:<\/strong>
    \n4.1: loads the module at compile time, not run-time.
    \n4.2: imports symbols and semantics from that package to the current one.<\/p>\n

    Command to learn more about use and require<\/strong>
    \n> perldoc -f require
    \n> perldoc -f use<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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