Thanks very much... I appreciate your help. So the following would be a fine way to test if a module is available and either use it or not use it accordingly?

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "here we go again...";

&a;

sub a {
        BEGIN {
                eval ("use fakemodule;");
                if ($@) {
                        print "error happened $@";
                } else {
                        print "error didnt happen, do some stuff";
                }
        }
}
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