That is actually what I was thinking, but I am not very good at perl, so
I was not sure that that method would work, and I saw the other in a
test script that I knew did work, so I was inclined to go with what I
know, and leave the refining to others who knew more.
Thanks for the tip,
Kyle Moffett
On Wednesday, January 16, 2002, at 06:58 , Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>> "Kyle" == Kyle Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Kyle> I found a way to detect if Storable.pm exists, at runtime. Pulled
> Kyle> this from the xml-simple-pm package, it was in one of the test
> scripts.
>
> Kyle> eval ( require Storable; };
> Kyle> if ($INC{'Storable.pm'}) $somevar{'storable'} = 'True';
>
> This is simpler:
>
> if (eval { require Storable; 1; }) { ... }
>
> and it can even be executed multiple times with very little overhead.
> There's no point in checking %INC, when the eval will either return
> its last expression, or return undef if failed.
>
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