Question

eval{
   require $file;
}

/*subsequent code goes here*/
...

If $file contains an exit statement, the subsequent code doesn’t have a chance to run.

How to work around so that the subsequent code always get its chance to run when eval is done??

Answer 1

It’s not possible to abort the exit call. $file should use die instead, which can be trapped by an eval.

As a workaround, you can override the exit builtin globally:

BEGIN {
    *CORE::GLOBAL::exit = sub { die "About to exit" } 
}