in reply to Re^3: Testing if Perl Code is Valid - but don't execute!
in thread Testing if Perl Code is Valid - but don't execute!
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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