Ok, thanks for you help guys. I've got the answer now and its
working.
Sorry for the post here. I was posting a couple of other questions
here and didn't think about this not being related to mod_perl.
Mod_perl is where I'm using it though.
Thanks again.
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 05:41:32 -0800, Steve Thames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Consider this:
>
> my %names = (Bob => 'Robert Brower');
> my $caption = 'Name: $names{Bob)';
> print eval "qq|$caption|";
>
>If you can't see it, there is a syntax error in $caption: closing
>paren ) instead of brace }. The eval will produce no $@ and will
>return the empty string.
>
>As screwy as this looks, I have a very good reason for using this
>capability. I have written a powerful code generation tool that
>relies heavily on this.
>
>Does anyone have any idea how to capture the syntax error in a case
>like this?
>
