On Oct 14, James Edward Gray II said:

>Perl's $! variable is being set by a call to close(), I'm 99% sure.
>However, this call to close() does not return undef, it succeeds.  The

Then close() isn't setting $! (to any meaningful value).  Only use $! when
something has failed.

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