At 22:18 -0500 2001.12.11, Greenblatt & Seay wrote:
>I am trying to write a program that uses a timer and works with MacPerl
>5.6.1 as well as 5.004. For 5.6.1 I would like to take advantage of
>microseconds.
>
>When I use the following line in 5.004...
>
> if($] > 5.006) { use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday) }
>
>it results in the error message "# Can't locate Time/HiRes.pm in @INC."
Right. use() is compile-time, and your if() is run-time.
>Is there a way around that?
Yes. If you have The Perl Cookbook, there are several examples. Some
quick ones off the top of my head:
a. require/import
require Time::HiRes;
Time::HiRes->import('gettimeofday');
b. eval
eval "use Time::HiRes 'gettimeofday'";
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