Hi Monks,

Greetings.!!!!

I have a small doubt in variable substituation in eval function. Please see the below code and output.

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$aa = 4;
$bb = 0;

eval { $cc = $aa/$bb; };

if ( $@ )
{ print "Wrong = Divide by Zero\n"; }
else
{ print "No Exception = Continue your code here\n"; }

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OUTPUT:

Wrong = Divide by Zero

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But if I use the constant instead of variable, the exception catch is not happening. I am getting the actual run time error.

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eval { $cc = 4/0; };

if ( $@ )
{ print "Wrong = Divide by Zero\n"; }
else
{ print "No Exception = Continue your code here\n"; }

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OUTPUT:

Illegal division by zero at test.pl line 2.

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Could anyone let me know the reason for the different output for the same code.

Edited by planetscape - added code tags and rudimentary formatting

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In reply to Variables in eval funcation by santhanamv

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