[Gllug] perl eval()

[will]

Hi all,

A bit OT but this seems like the best place to ask.

I have been experimenting with the perl DBI the last couple of days and have come upon a bit of a 
problem.  I need to trap the errors returned when doing things like connecting to the database as I 
don't want the script to die if there was an error.  The only way to do it that I have found so far 
however is to wrap the piece of code that might fail in eval() 
(http://search.cpan.org/doc/JWIED/Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2219/mysql/lib/DBD/mysql.pm).  In Perl in a 
Nutshell it says about eval():

"Evaluates the expression or code in its argument at runtime as a separate Perl program..."

Does this mean that another interpreter is fired up to run the code in the eval?  This is a bit 
worrying as the resources on the box are pretty minimal.  Is there a better way of trapping the 
errors returned from the DBI that I am unaware of?

Will.



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