>>>>> "Douglas" == Douglas McNaught <doug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Douglas> my $dbh;
Douglas> eval { $dbh = connect(...) };
Since eval returns its value (or undef if $@ has the error), you can shorten
this to:
my $dbh = eval { DBI->connect(...) };
and now either look at $@ (if you want to distinguish exception vs normal) or
just defined $dbh (if you want to know if you have a useful handle or not).
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