I have some perl modules that I use for my CGI scripts, which:

use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

to redirect errors to the browser. I want to use the same modules in my tty-oriented scripts too. But when I do, errors are reported with HTML tags embedded...

I understand why, of course, but there's another curiosity about this: because I use carpout() in my set_message() function to redirect error output to another file, perl complains that the file is non-existent when used from the tty scripts. (It works just fine from the cgi scripts.)

I would prefer that Carp somehow be more intelligent about what to output if STDOUT is a tty, but barring that, how can I conditionally choose to use CGI::Carp in the perl module that contains it?

Dan Heller
http://www.danheller.com

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