Good afternoon

I'm writing a test script that tests whether another perl script compiles correctly. If I was on the command line, I'd use perl -c foo.pl. Normally, if I was within a perl script, I'd either slurp the file into a string and eval it, or try eval { require 'foo.pl' } and check $@ for compilation errors

However, in this case, at the end of foo.pl, it enters a long-running loop with while (<>) (it's a Squid redirector script). This means that my test script hangs forever. How can I break out of this loop, and test whether it looked ok?

Thanks
ViceRaid

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