What's the difference between require and use?

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Perl offers several different ways to include code from one file into another. Here are the differences between the various inclusion commands:

1) [tt]do $file[/tt] is like [tt]eval `cat $file`[/tt], except that [tt]do[/tt]
1.1: searches [tt]@INC[/tt] and updates [tt]%INC[/tt].
1.2: gives an *unrelated* lexical scope to the eval'ed code.
2) [tt]require $file[/tt] is like [tt]do $file[/tt], except that [tt]require[/tt]
2.1: checks for redundant loading, skipping already loaded files.
2.2: raises an exception on failure to find, compile, or execute $file.
2.3: It may help, if you're a C programmer, to think of [tt]require[/tt] as being like #include
3) [tt]require Module[/tt] is like [tt]require "Module.pm"[/tt], except that [tt]require[/tt]
3.1: translates each "::" into your system's directory separator.
3.2: primes the parser to disambiguate class Module as an indirect object.
4) [tt]use Module[/tt] is like [tt]require Module[/tt], except that [tt]use[/tt]
4.1: loads the module at compile time, not run-time.
4.2: imports symbols and semantics from that package to the current one.