Re^4: Testing if Perl Code is Valid

in reply to Re^3: Testing if Perl Code is Valid - but don't execute!
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No, I would argue that you have to finish parsing the file. Which puts it at a 50% success rate. Unless you have knowledge ahead of time of all possible environments that could succeed or fail in the remaining code.

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Re^5: Testing if Perl Code is Valid - but don't execute! by JavaFan (Canon) on Aug 13, 2010 at 08:01 UTC
Well, duh, you got to finish parsing the file to know whether it's valid or not. For the example given though, you don't to execute more than the BEGIN block. That is, afterall, exactly what `perl -c` does. It executes the BEGIN, parses the file, and then, 100% of the time, tells you whether the file contains a valid Perl program or not.	[reply]

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