Oh dear, oh dear,

Sorry, my debugging / problem searching ability seems to have deserted me on this one.

the base problem can be isolated on a much simpler script

It segfaults on linux under 5.6.1

It doesnt segfault on Solaris with perl 5.00503 

use strict;

use XML::Simple;

for ('./news-arabic-business.xml') {

    my $xmlfile = $_;

    my $struct;
    my $parser = new XML::Simple( forcearray => 1 );

    eval {
        $struct = $parser->XMLin( $xmlfile );
        die "wibble " unless ref $struct eq 'HASH';
    };

    if ($@) {
       print "$@ \n";
       next;
    };
}

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where all the xml file has to contain is

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1256"? >

on Solaris the modules are older versions.

In reply to Re: eval not catching XML Parser die by agoth
in thread eval not catching XML Parser die by agoth

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