If I understand what you're doing, this is a neat idea. You can trap errors your way even though the author of the original module trapped them thier way. Perl is just cool...

The following code catches all print operations on the STDERR file handle.

package ErrorTrapper;

sub TIEHANDLE{
    my ($class, $file) = @_;
    bless [] , $class;
}

sub PRINT{
    my ($self, @msg) = @_;
    die "@msg\n";
}

package main;

tie *STDERR, "ErrorTrapper";

print "Testing...\n\n";
print STDERR "Something went wrong!\n";
print "Shouldn't see this";
Cheers,

John

In reply to Re: Catch messages to STDERR by raptnor2
in thread Catch messages to STDERR by Räuber Hotzenplotz

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