Guildenstern writes:

I'm not sure if Perl supports error handling in the same manner (try and catch, or similar), but I'm sure somebody here can clue me in.

darobin mentions this below - use eval BLOCK with die to catch and throw exceptions:

eval {
   # code that might die
};

if ($@) {
   # $@ contains your exception
}
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Peace,
-McD

Update: merlyn is right, of course - forgot the ";". Curse my flying fingers! :-)