in reply to Re^2: Stopping execution of an eval statement
in thread Stopping execution of an eval statement

If i die in the handler, then the whole script would stop processing,not just the eval statement, right?
Wrong.

die inside an eval is a common idiom to have exception handling in Perl (see eval for examples, BTW). If you look at the example by dave_the_m, you'll see that the line after eval {long}; is printed - probably after the user has hit CTRL-C.

Flavio
perl -ple'$_=reverse' <<<ti.xittelop@oivalf

Don't fool yourself.

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Re^4: Stopping execution of an eval statement
by slloyd (Hermit) on Jul 25, 2005 at 12:37 UTC
    Thank you for the clarafication. I modified the code slightly to show this a bit better. Run the following code. Then hit CTRL-C once to abort the eval statement, then wait and then hit CTRL-C to exit completely.
    use strict; $|=1; sub long { 1 while 1 } $SIG{INT} = sub { die "got int\n" }; print "SIG{INT}=$SIG{INT}\n"; eval {long}; print "got err: $@\n" if $@; print "Loop after first eval\n"; while(1){ select(undef,undef,undef,.25); } print "OK I am a done\n"; __END__