On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:25:02PM -0500, perlwannabe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Basically the script runs and looks for a file in a certain directory.  If
> the file is there, the script continues to run and process the file, but
> if the file is not there the script should just exit.
> 
> Any ideas on how to do this?

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my $file_name = "/home/bob/test.pl";

if ( ! -e $file_name) {die "$!"};

print "This\n";

Hth,
Kent

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