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On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 12:04:11PM -0400, Sterin, Ilya wrote:
> The problem with putting it into an eval block is that it will be commited
> no matter what and then your rollback statement is useless. You should
> really check on status of execute to commit/rollback based on that. Also
> with autocommit off is any of the statements fail though stopping the
> program, the inserts/updates would not of been commited. In your case eval
> prevents from failing a script, though commiting no matter what.
Say what?!?
An eval block will exit at the point a die is triggered. It traps a fatal and
then leaves the eval block without aborting the rest of the script. But it
doesn't continue executing the eval block like you suggest.
There's even an example in `perldoc DBI` that looks exactly like the given
code. What would be the point of it if it kept executing? eval *traps* errors,
it doesn't completely disable them.
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Stephen Clouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Senior Programmer, IQ Coordinator Project Lead
The IQ Group, Inc. <http://www.theiqgroup.com/>
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