On Sep 5, Pete Emerson said: >I think I'm going in circles. Sorry about the multiple postings. >The program barfs on 'use Tk' even though by the time I get to the 'use >Tk' the Tk module should be installed.
'use Tk' happens at compile-time. The trick is to make the test happen at compile-time too: BEGIN { eval { require Tk; }; if ($@) { ... } } use Tk; -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]