EDIT: SOLVED! The eval was not only formatted incorrectly, it needed to be in a BEGIN block, due to the nature of the module's use by the host server. Thanks for all the help!

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Greetings,

The host server where our intracompany site lives requires this on one of our CGI scripts:

use cPanelUserConfig;

My local machine is running its own Apache server, and I use it to test code. However, it doesn't have cPanelUserConfig installed. It's a pain to have to remember to comment that line out when I'm testing locally and then uncomment it before I upload it to the host server. So I tried this:

eval{"use cPanelUserConfig;"};
unless($@){use cPanelUserConfig}

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The problem is that, even though that Perl module is not installed, $@ is empty, so the "use cPanelUserConfig" tries to execute and the script dies.

Any suggestions for making this work?

Thanks!

In reply to [SOLVED] Using eval: $@ isn't returning the error I expect by doctormelodious

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