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. -- 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. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]