Maybe you should stop, then. There is good reason for most people not paying attention to the return value from 'require'.

For your use case, 'do' would be more appropriate than 'require'. 

 $ echo 13 > lucky.pl
 $ perl -l
print do 'lucky.pl';
print require 'lucky.pl';
print do 'lucky.pl';
__END__
13
1
13
 $

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Which actually makes me a little sad. Being able to reasonably use the return value from 'require' would have some nice benefits.

- tye        

In reply to Re^5: XML::Twig Support for Parameter Entities (do) by tye
in thread XML::Twig Support for Parameter Entities by dtdattacks

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