eastcoastcoder has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi. When I do:
require 'file.pl' ;

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but file.pl doesn't compile, how can I print the error msg? ( || die "$!" doesn't seem to work, don't know why)

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Re: require error message
by tlm (Prior) on Jun 28, 2005 at 04:35 UTC

    I'd try 

    % perl -wc file.pl

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    or, if you want more verbose error messages, 
    % perl -Mdiagnostics -wc file.pl

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    from the command line. This will do a syntax check on file.pl without running it. It should print out the errors and warnings to stderr.

    the lowliest monk

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Re: require error message
by BUU (Prior) on Jun 28, 2005 at 05:21 UTC
    eval { require $file } or print $@;
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