Hello monks,

I am trying to add some more helpful behavior to an existing script that is DBI dependent. On systems without DBI it complains about how DBI.pm is not found and so on.

Some of what it is supposed to do is not DBI dependend (basic stats gathering), what I want to do is run the non-DBI stuff anyway....
I thought I had it figured out, but... here is what I have tried. It still complains of no DBI module when there is none and refuses to run due to missing modules... 

$use_dbi = 1;
eval("use DBI;");
$use_dbi = 0 if (not($@);
if ($use_dbi)
 {
  use DBI;
  ...
 }
else
 {
  print "NO DBI\n";
 }
... do other stuff ...

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help?

jcpunk
all code is tested, and doesn't work so there :p (varient on common PM sig for my own ammusment)

In reply to DBI detector? by jcpunk

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