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Sep 022010
 

Simple try catch block in Perl

Answer:

Perl don't have try/catch statement by default, but you can simulate using the following way:

eval {
    print 1/0;
};

if ($@) {
    print "Error message: $@";
};

When executed, it shows:

Error message: Illegal division by zero at test.pl line 7.

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