finding invalid method names

[ivan]

Hi,

I would like to run a command on my perl scripts / modules to find out if
there are any method names that are being called which are not defined.

So for example where I run:

perl -c test.pl

on this script:
1 #!/usr/bin/perl
2 use strict;
3
4 blah_blah_foo();

The result is test.pl syntax OK.

Is there any other program i can run to do a static analysis of perl code
and find these errors?

Thanks,

 

[Tad McClellan]

Hi,

I would like to run a command on my perl scripts / modules to find out if
there are any method names that are being called which are not defined.

So for example where I run:

perl -c test.pl

on this script:
1 #!/usr/bin/perl
2 use strict;
3
4 blah_blah_foo();

There are no method calls anywhere in that code.

 

[Michael Carman]

I would like to run a command on my perl scripts / modules to find out if
there are any method names that are being called which are not defined.

Method dispatch happens at runtime. There's really no way for a static analysis
tool to determine whether or not a given method call is valid.

perl -c test.pl

on this script:
1 #!/usr/bin/perl
2 use strict;
3
4 blah_blah_foo();

The result is test.pl syntax OK.

Umm, as Tad said, there are no method calls in that code. Did you want to ask
about detecting undefined *subroutines*?

-mjc