Hello, I have a rather esoteric question.

I know an expert can always find where the code exits by tracing with a hex debugger, but I am trying to hide where I exit the code at the human readable level anyway. The code snippet below works, but not if "use Tk;" is present, which it is in a number of modules the real code invokes.

I am obviously dealing with legacy code (Tk is used. ActiveState no longer supports Tk).

Is there any other way to hide an "exit;"?

How about a "die()";

use Tk;
my $etriped = 'e'.
                  'x'.
                       'i'.
                            't';
print "1\n";
eval ("$etriped");
print "2\n"; # Reached if "use Tk;" is present.

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In reply to How to hide exit and die by mnooning

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