Re: Testing for a module's presence

[rlb3]

Hello,
I think you would have to do something like:

eval { require Some::Module; };

if ($@) {
    print "Can't find Some::Module\n";
}

When you say "use", things happen at compile time and would happen before the eval so, the error would not get trapped.

rlb3

[sandfly]

"require" also better because it doesn't call import(). The module code still gets executed though. Typically, "require"d modules just create subs in their own package, but a badly-behaved module could in principle mess up any namespace.

If you want to "use" a module at runtime, you can eval a quoted string:
eval "use $mymodule";<br>print $@ if $@;