Sounds about right, except I think the OP wanted to do something besides exit if Inline::C is not available.
Yep - I was envisaging that the 'if($@){}' block would contain the fallback perl code. As you've indicated, Eric, there's a few alternatives :-)
Cheers, Rob
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