I know you can catch the results of die as follows:

eval {
     ... some code doing somethin ...
     die "Couldn't do something!\n";
}

if ($@) {
     print "I caught a call to die: $@";  
}

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This is very usefull. However, I came across a situation where I would like a script to do some initialization on startup and cleanup on shutdown. This can be accomplished using BEGIN {  } and END{  }. However, how do you handle situations where you still want to do your cleanup on the main script exiting due to a die. The End block will run on die, but how do you know why?? You would think the following would work, but it doesnt.

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use strict;

die "Let's Try to die.";

END {
    print "End block is being executed.\n";
    if ($@){
        print "We caught a call to die: $@\n";
    }
}

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So what do the monks think?

Thanks!
zzspectrez

In reply to BEGIN, END, eval and die. by zzspectrez

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