On Jan 21, Alex Harris said: >I need to place code that leaves my program entirely if certain errors occur >(mostly on opening a file). However I don't want ANY messages going >anywhere except my $errlog. (I noticed die, seem to always show a message >at the command line). What's the best way to handle say the following then >if an error occurs?
Then create a function that does the error-handling you want. sub fatal { my ($file, $line) = (caller)[1,2]; print ERROR "In $file on line $line: ", @_, "\n"; exit; } -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]