Re: Portability question: Is there something like '#ifdef' in Perl?

If you want to check whether or not a particular module is available, you do that like this:

eval 'require Win32::GetShortPathName';
if ($@) {
 # nope, not on this system
} else {
 # yes, go ahead with it
}
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Note that you must leave out the "use" for the module.

Or were you asking how to tell what platform you're on?

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Re: Re: Portability question: Is there something like '#ifdef' in Perl? by sureshr (Beadle) on Sep 29, 2003 at 16:30 UTC
Thank you! Its just the kind of solution I was looking for, though I was planning to insert code based on ifdef doing a platform check. Thanks to others too, who have answered my original query! -sureshr	[reply]