On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 07:05:41AM -0800, Steve Thames wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:33:56 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tomas Zerolo)
> wrote:
> >
> >You mean something like...
> >
> > my %names = (Bob => 'Robert Brower');
> > my $caption = 'Name: $names{Bob)';
> > print eval "qq|$caption|";
> > die $@ if $@
> >
> >giving:
> >
> > syntax error at (eval 1) line 1, near "Bob)"
> > Missing right curly or square bracket at (eval 1) line 1, within string
> >
> >HTH
> >-- tomas
>
> Exactly right. Except $@ is empty in this construction--no error is
> reported but the eval fails.
>
> It has something to do with the way perl uses the setjmp and longjmp c
> functions. I was reading something about that.
>
> I'm trying to trap the syntax error.
It works for me. I get the same result as Tomas. $@ contains the expected
error message.
But what does this have to do with modperl??
Ronald
