Hi,

I'm writing a script that processes an "executable spec" document that contains embedded code fragments. The script is designed to be a lint tool. I want to extract these fragments, and check that they are valid perl. The extraction part is easy; but how do I check the syntax?

One way to do this is something like 

  system( qw(perl -c -e), $my_text);

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But I was wondering if its possible to do this without the system-call. Basically, I want to call eval($my_text), but I want it to act like it had a -c option (i.e. don't eval, just compile). I can assume there are no "BEGIN" blocks, nor other such nasties that would cause code to be executed during the compile.

Any thoughts? --Dave.

In reply to eval, but syntax-check only -- like perl -c by dpuu

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