Appreciate insight on why if I have a defined SIG{__DIE__}, it is overriding a try/catch block? If I comment out the SIG{__DIE__} code, the 'catch' works; but otherwise it does not.

use strict;
#use diagnostics;
use JSON qw(decode_json encode_json);
use Try::Tiny;
use warnings;

$SIG{__DIE__} = sub {
    my $item = shift;
    my $lasterr = "";
    $lasterr = $@ if (defined($@));
    chomp ($item);
    print STDERR "DIE ERROR: $item : $lasterr\n";
    local $! = 2;
    exit $!;
}; # end SIG_DIE

sub write_mets {
    my $collref;

    # Read first line of test file
    my $file = "data1";
    open (my $f, "<", $file) || die "Error opening: $!";
    my $json1 = <$f>;
    close ($f);

    try {
        $collref = decode_json ($json1);
        print STDOUT "Read file $file\n";
    } catch {
        print STDERR "Error decoding data from $file $@ \n";
    };
}

write_mets();

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As run above, I get the following: (data1 has some bad json)

$ perl S2.pl
DIE ERROR: garbage after JSON object, at character offset 7413 (before
+ "n\n") at S2.pl line 30. :

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If I comment out the SIG_DIE code, I get

$ perl S2.pl
Error decoding data from data1

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Noticed also that $@ also does not have a value in this case. The detailed error is missing. I really need the SIG_DIE functionality for the rest of the code, just not have it get int he way in the try/catch section :-). After several hours of googling and trying, have given up. Monks! Help! Thanks!

In reply to try catch getting ignored by SIG DIE subroutine by dkhosla1

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