On 8/30/07, Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:32:01 +0100, Beginner wrote:
> > I want all the output plus any error messages to got to a log file. I
> > used the BEGIN block to direct STDERR into the file:
> >
> > BEGIN {
> > open(STDERR, ">>/usr/local/myreports/report.log") || die "Can't
> > write to file: $!\n";
> > }
> >
> > use strict;
> > use warnings;
> > ...
> > ### Start some logging ###
> > my $log;
> > my $logfile = "$dist_dir/report.log";
> > open($log,">>$logfile") || die "Can't write to $logfile: $!\n";
> > print $log "$0 called at ", &tm," with pid $$\n";
>
> Why are you using a BEGIN block? Why not just make it the first
> executable statement? Do you have any other 'use' statements in the
> program?
Because otherwise it would be too late to catch the output of other
compile-time statements like "use" or other "BEGIN" blocks.
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