Hi! I have a challenge for all you perl monks.

Let's assume I have thousands of corrupted perl files, like so:

Good file:
print "hello world!\n";

Corrupt file:
pr;int "hello world!\n";

except that they are each hundreds of lines long and I have some that work and many more that don't. I don't care about salvaging the broken files, all I'm trying to do (ha) is modify the perl compiler so that it deletes or lists any file that is broken. If I have a list, then I can use a script to delete the files. If the compiler can delete the file itself then that is fine too. Also, (here's the fun part) if the file isn't broken then I would like the script to run.

I'm asking you monks here because although I've tried to modify the compiler (I replaced a line that printed an error message with a delete command), there are so many errors that perl checks for and tries to fix on its own (one of the many things I love about perl) that I can't find and replace every instance within the compiler (/usr/bin/perl).

Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any docs you might point me to or tips on modifying the compiler itself.

In reply to Deleting corrupted perl files - modifying the perl runtime by kylespitz

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