----- Original Message ----- From: "Harter, Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Beginners Mailing List Perl (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 4:46 AM Subject: Conditional compilation
> I am writing a Perl script which will run on multiple machines. I have a > use Expect; > in the script. > > The problem is that Perl Expect is not currently installed on all the > machines. > > Does Perl have any conditional compilation so that I can somehow NOT execute > the use statement on the machines that do not have expect? Or is there > another way to handle this situation? > Hi - 'use' processing is done at compile-time, not run-time, so run-time conditionals don't have any effect. Replace your 'use' with 'require' and 'import' (resolved at run-time) within conditionals, or check the results on the 'require' ($@ I think) to determine if the module is present. Play with it; check docs. Aloha => Beau; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
