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nmerriweather has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm having an issue w/catching DBI errors

I do the following:
$query->execute() || { $SQL_FAIL = 1 };
which does exactly what i want - sets a var if the sql command fails, so I can handle the error with more granularity than handler error

The problem i've run into is this: the {} creates a hashref warning , which i'd like to get rid of . can anyone offer a suggestion?