Re^5: Testing if Perl Code is Valid - but don't execute!

[JavaFan]

Well, duh, you got to finish parsing the file to know whether it's valid or not.

For the example given though, you don't to execute more than the BEGIN block. That is, afterall, exactly what perl -c does. It executes the BEGIN, parses the file, and then, 100% of the time, tells you whether the file contains a valid Perl program or not.