Look at eval blocks - lets you trap fatal errors from other code and not die/abort yourself. https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/eval.html You can also wrie your own signal handling code https://www.perl.com/article/37/2013/8/18/Catch-and-Handle-Signals-in-Perl/
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 8:42 AM Lars Noodén <lars.noo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been using the CPAN module XML::Feed to parse Atom and RSS feeds. > Some of the feeds it fetches are a little broken from time to time and > when that happens the parser produces and error and stops the program. > I'd like it to just keep going. > > I am invoking the parser inside a subroutine like this: > > my $feed = XML::Feed->parse(URI->new($uri)) or return(0); > > which I thought that would allow the subroutine to simply return failure > and let the program keep going. But it does not. Instead it shows an > error and quits. Here is an error from feed which is broken today but > not yesterday and probably will be ok again tomorrow: > > not well-formed (invalid token) at line 142, column 76, > byte 30070 at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.24/XML/Parser.pm > line 187. > > ... foo.pl: exited with status 255; aborting > > I have no control over the feeds and their formats or contents. So, are > there instead any recommendations on how I can have perl trap the error > or otherwise prevent malformed XML from bringing the whole program to a > halt? > > Thanks, > Lars > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- Andy Bach afb...@gmail.com Not at my desk
