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in reply to Checking for PERL Modules

Try using eval and require:

# $module is the module you're checking for
print "module $module is ", eval("require $module") ?
    "present\n" : "absent\n";

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Re: Re: Checking for PERL Modules
by kidd (Curate) on Jul 19, 2002 at 18:52 UTC
    WOW!!! That seems easy...thanks for your replies, that was exactly what I was looking for...
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