SPUG: XML::RSS help

Eric Wilhelm scratchcomputing at gmail.com
Tue Sep 26 15:09:28 PDT 2006


# from luis medrano
# on Tuesday 26 September 2006 02:52 pm:

>I don't want the script to die if the rss is not valid or
>not available when I call it.

As Jerry said, don't die.  Also, you may want to look at `perldoc -f 
eval`.

>$rss->parse($data);

  eval { $rss->parse($data) };
  if($@) {
    warn "something wrong with parse: $@";
    # now try again or recover and/or exit gracefully
  }

--Eric
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