I am coding a content engine which parses my files into valid perl block and then evals them into anonymous subroutines. Basically, the files have API defintions which are compiled into a hash of anon subs.

The problem is, if there is an error that is not a syntax error Apache emits an error to the error log indicating the source as "(eval xxx)", where xxx is a number.

Is there any way to determine, after an eval has taken place, what the internal eval counter is in perl so I can maintain a table of eval numbers to english names so when I trap thse Apache errors I can replace (eval xxx) with something that makes a bit more sense?

I have been searching for this information for the past couple hours, so hopefully someone here can help me out with this problem!

I am running mod_perl under Apache if that is relevant.

Thanks for any assistance with this problem! :)

In reply to Is it possible to determine the eval block accumulator? by BlacKat

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