use/require absolute path?

If I have a .pm file, is there a way I can use it, without placing it on my @INC path? I think that would be clearer in my particular use case - clearer than using relative paths or adding this directory to @INC.

I was hoping to avoid the necessity to iterate through every item in @INC, and instead specify directly which file I am interested in. For example, in Node.JS, require('something') will search the list of paths, but require('/specific/something') will go directly where I tell it to.

In Perl, I am not certain that this is the same functionality found in require, but it seems to work.

However, use statements require barewords. That has left me a little stumped on how to enter an absolute path.

Solution

As per discussion in comments, I would suggest using require itself. Like below,

require "pathto/module/Newmodule.pm";

Newmodule::firstSub();

Also you can use other options as below

use lib 'pathto/module'; This line needs to be added to every file you want to use the module in.

use lib 'pathto/module';
use Newmodule;

using PERL5LIB environment variable. Set this on command line using export or add this to ~/.bashrc so that with every login it will be added to your @INC. Remember PERL5LIB adds directory before all @INC directories. So it will be used first. Also you can set it in apache httpd.conf using
```
SetEnv PERL5LIB /fullpath/to/module
```
Or set it in BEGIN block.