1goto::file(3)         User Contributed Perl Documentation        goto::file(3)
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NAME

6       goto::file - Stop parsing the current file and move on to a different
7       one.
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DESCRIPTION

10       It is rare, but there are times where you want to swap out the
11       currently compiling file for a different one. This module does that.
12       From the point you "use" the module perl will be parsing the new file
13       instead of the original.
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WHY?!

16       This was created specifically for Test2::Harness which can preload
17       modules and fork to run each test. The problem was that using "do" to
18       execute the test files post-fork was resuling in extra frames in the
19       stack trace... in other words there are a lot of tests that assume the
20       test file is the bottom of the stack. This happens all the time,
21       specially if stack traces need to be verified.
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23       This module allows Test2::Harness to swap out the main script for the
24       new file without adding a stack frame.
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SYNOPSIS

27       Plain and simple:
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29           #!/usr/bin/perl
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31           use goto::file 'some_file.pl';
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33           die "This will never be seen!";
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35           __DATA__
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37           This data will not be seen by <DATA>
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39       More useful:
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41           #!/usr/bin/perl
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43           BEGIN {
44               my $file = should_switch_files();
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46               if ($file) {
47                   print "about to switch to file '$file'\n";
48                   require goto::file;
49                   goto::file->import($file);
50               }
51           }
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53           print "Did not go to a file\n";
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55       Another thing you can do:
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57           use goto::file [
58               'print "Hi!\n";',
59               "exit 0",
60           ];
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62           die "Will not get here";
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NOTES

65       __DATA__ and <DATA>
66           This module does its very best to make sure the data you get from
67           <DATA> comes from the NEW file, and not the old. At the moment
68           there are no known failure cases, but there could be some.
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IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS

71       This is a source filter. The source filter simply disgards the lines
72       from the original file and instead feeds perl lines from the new file.
73       There is also a small source injection at the start that sets up
74       "<DATA>" and makes sure line numbers and file name are all correct.
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SOURCE

77       The source code repository for goto-file can be found at
78       http://github.com/exodist/goto-file/.
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MAINTAINERS

81       Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>
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AUTHORS

84       Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>
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87       Copyright 2017 Chad Granum <exodist7@gmail.com>.
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89       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
90       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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92       See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/
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96perl v5.36.0                      2023-01-20                     goto::file(3)
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