Re: Where do die messages go?

[Ben Siders]

I'm not 100% confident that'll work as written. I *think* that if the open is successful then the die will never execute and that 'if' will never get checked. If the 'open' is successful on writing to a non-existant file, I'm not sure if this solution will correct it.

Dan Muey wrote:

Open (...$file ...) || die "Oops I died : $@" if (-e $file);
Something like that should work
Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 12:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Where do die messages go?


Greetings!

If I remember correctly, in either Visual C++ or Visual Basic (or both) there is a way to call open() (or its equivalent) for appending and to have it fail if the file doesn't previously exist. Is there a way to do that in Perl?

Merely curious -- I'm not likely to need this in the near future.

RobR



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