carp

Why should I use Carp instead of warn in Perl?

People keep giving me examples with carp instead of warn. Why? What makes carp better than warn? ...

Is there a C equivalent for Perl's Carp module?

In some projects I've done in C, I've liked using the following macros which work similar to Perl's warn and die subroutines: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #define warn(...) \ fprintf(stderr, __VA_ARGS__); \ fprintf(stderr, " at %s line %d\n", __FILE__, __LINE__) #define die(...) \ warn(__VA_ARGS__); \ exit(0x...

How can I replace all 'die's with 'confess' in a Perl application?

I'm working in a large Perl application and would like to get stack traces every time 'die' is called. I'm aware of the Carp module, but I would prefer not to search/replace every instance of 'die' with 'confess'. In addition, I would like full stack traces for errors in Perl modules or the Perl interpreter itself, and obviously I can't ...

Find/Replace using Carp

I use carp free 3.6.4 to display content from some wordpress rss feeds onto a web page but there are always encoding errors (I get the diamond question (U+DDDF) whenever a blog user uses curly quotes and also after all question marks that are followed by spaces). I went into carp.php looking for the output so I can do an str_replace('U+...

What does Carp::carp do in Perl?

Can anyone please explain me about carp subroutine with sample Perl code? ...

How can I change some specific carps into croaks in Perl?

I tried to catch a carp-warning: carp "$start is > $end" if (warnings::enabled()); ) with eval {} but it didn't work, so I looked in the eval documentation and I discovered, that eval catches only syntax-errors, run-time-errors or executed die-statements. How could I catch a carp warning? #!/usr/bin/env perl use warnings; use str...

Why won't prove accept -MCarp=verbose?

I ran this test script: use strict; use warnings; use Test::More tests => 3; use Carp; ok(1<2); pass(); fail(); croak "example"; using the command line prove -MCarp=verbose -v foo.pl, and got the following errors: Subroutine App::Prove::verbose redefined at /opt/ActivePerl-5.12/lib/App/Prove.pm line 407 App::Prove::_load_ext...