Thanks for the suggestion - but I need this trick inside my own module, and just in one place, so the module itself can be considered the "wrapper" in a way.

My consideration is which module to use right now, just hoping someone who has experience with both of them to give the right suggestion.

This really would be a no-brainer if one of these modules was part of Perl's core distribution (or considered to become part of is for that matter).

Cheers,
Joe