Monks,

Can someone point me in the right direction on error handling with packages? I have some die statements in a custom package, in case certain files don't exist, but it's preventing the rest of my script from executing when the die is encountered. Ideally, I would like to build in an error checking mechanism that if the package dies, I can catch this within the script and perform some action based on it. I thought something like this would work: 
use strict;
user warnings;
use VPNUser qw(get_vpn_user $user $fullname $location);
 
my $ip = shift;
my $time = shift;
 
my $status = get_vpn_user($ip, $time);

print "$status\n";

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but $status never prints anything if the package dies. I have "return 1" at the end of the package, so maybe that's my problem?

My error handling skills are limited to "die" and "warn". I would appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction on how to handle this.

Thanks,
Dru

In reply to Error Handling with Packages by Dru

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