I'm trying to manipulate a PHP script so that it redirects to a particular URL instead of giving me a MySQL error. So I went from this... $qs = mysql_query("SELECT url FROM $table WHERE `id` = $gi...

I know I can die but that prints out the script name and line number. I like to do things like die 'error' if $problem; Is there a way to do that without printing line number stuff? It would be ...

I'm writing a Perl script which uses an external script. The external script must run from a specific directory so I found the following useful: use IPC::System::Simple qw(capture); my @args = ('...

I want to redirect the die messages to a separate file so that I can compare that file later to determine what went wrong. But this code gives me errors: $ cat test.pl use strict; use warnings; ...

I would like my script perl to die whenever a warning is generated, including warnings which are generated by used packages. For example, this should die: use strict; use warnings; use Statistics...

I am developing some project. And I want to control different errors. I know that in all popular frameworks and php projects there are different Exceptions. But I think that is not required work. I...

I am writing a perl script, and in the part where I am checking the options that the user supplied on the command line, I want to exit with an error explaining what was wrong with the options. In t...

I'm playing around with error handling and got a little problem. I connect with a database using the DBI module. I do my own error handling by using a subroutine that I call upon an error. I can ...

How can I check what kind of exception caused the script or eval block to terminate? I need to know the type of error, and where the exception occurred.

Yes, the problem is with a library I'm using, and no, I cannot modify it. I need a workaround. Basically, I'm dealing with a badly written Perl library, that exits with 'die' when a certain error ...

In some projects I've done in C, I've liked using the following macros which work similar to Perl's warn and die subroutines: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #define warn(...) ...

This is a followup to "How can I get around a ‘die’ call in a Perl library I can’t modify?". I have a subroutine that calls a Library-Which-Crashes-Sometimes many times. Rather than couch each cal...

I have been trying to use the Perl utility/module "prove" as a test harness for some unit tests. The unit tests are a little more "system" than "unit" as I need to for...