G'day bartender1382,

I had a look in Spreadsheet::Read but can't find the "If a file cannot be found ..." message you reported. Perhaps it's not an error message but private feedback from the module's author. Regardless, I have no context for the die() or what it's reporting.

Having said that, I suspect what you want is eval. Compare the following two short pieces of code and their output.

Here's the type of scenario I think you're dealing with: 

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

package Module::That::Dies;

sub die_here { die "RIP Module::That::Dies" }

package main;

Module::That::Dies::die_here();

print "main continues ...\n";

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Output:

RIP Module::That::Dies at ./pm_11143055_trap_mod_errors.pl line 8.

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Here's a modification of that code to do what I think you want: 

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

package Module::That::Dies;

sub die_here { die "RIP Module::That::Dies" }

package main;

eval {
    Module::That::Dies::die_here();
    1;
} or do {
    warn "Error from Module::That::Dies:\n$@\n";
};

print "main continues ...\n";

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Output:

Error from Module::That::Dies:
RIP Module::That::Dies at ./pm_11143055_trap_mod_errors.pl line 8.

main continues ...

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If that's not what you want, please provide more context for the problem to help us to help you.

— Ken

In reply to Re: Can I catch a die from someone else's module? by kcott
in thread Can I catch a die from someone else's module? by bartender1382

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