Check out Conway's Perl Best Practices. From Chapter 13: Error Handling, Section Recoverable Failure, we find the following technique: 
use Carp qw(croak);
use English qw(-no_match_vars);
use Net::FTP;
use Time::HiRes qw(sleep);

use strict;

my $MAX_TRIES = 15;

my $ftp;

TRY:
for my $try (1..$MAX_TRIES) {
    # If successful, we're done.
    eval {
        $ftp = Net::FTP->new("some.host.name", Debug => 0)
            or die "Cannot connect to some.host.name: $@";
        last TRY;
    };

    # Report non-recoverable failure if no more tries
    croak( $EVAL_ERROR ) if $try == $MAX_TRIES;
    
    # Try again after a nap (approximate fibonacci)
    sleep( rand (1.618 ** $try) );
}

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Update: Missing Semi-colon.

In reply to Re: VB "On Error" Equivalent in Perl by wind
in thread VB "On Error" Equivalent in Perl by Gorby

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