from 'perldoc -f use'
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use Module ();
That is exactly equivalent to
BEGIN { require Module }
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me thinks, what you want is
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> BEGIN
> {
> $mod = "CGI";
> unless (eval "require $mod")
> {
> warn "unable to install $mod $@\n";
> }
> }
>
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 14:36, Victor Tsang wrote:
> I have a piece of code which will be used in two different environment,
> One of the difference of the 2 system is a special library that is
> avaiable to only one of them. Going into the cookbook I found example
> 12.2 very suitable for my need. So I created the following code to test
> the idea
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> BEGIN
> {
> $mod = "CGI";
> unless (eval "use $mod")
> {
> warn "unable to install $mod $@\n";
> }
> }
>
>
> I expected this to work ok, but to my surprise, when I execute it, I get
> this :
>
> [htsang@victor htsang]$ ./test.perl
> unable to install CGI
>
>
> To verify CGI.pm is there, I did the following in the same machine.
>
> [htsang@victor htsang]$ perl -MCGI -e "print \$CGI::VERSION"
> 2.56[htsang@victor htsang]$
>
>
>
> Anyone has any idea what I did wrong?
>
> Many thanks.
>
>
> Tor.
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