On Wed, 1 May 2013 11:50:05 -0400 Brandon McCaig <bamcc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 11:45:00AM -0400, Brandon McCaig wrote: > > One thing that I know bit me with the 'or die' pattern is that > > with a pipe if the child process exits with an non-zero exit > > status then close returns undef, ... > > Sorry, close returns false to signal failure, not undef. > > > close $fh or $? != 0 or die "close: $!"; > > Reading over the perldoc again, the correct check might be $!, > not !?. I guess if the only reason close is signalling failure is > the exit status of the child process then close will set $! to 0. > So perhaps... > > close $fh or $! == 0 or die "close: $!"; > > Hopefully that covers all of my errors.. >_< > > Regards, > > Thanks for your detailed explanations. I think that close should work as I cannot see any reason why a failure of a command closes the pipe prematurely. -- Manfred -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
