Hi, Steve Kemp wrote:
> The following change makes the code work as expected:
Your change works as expected, but only because the file has just one line.
It's not a general solution.
The general solution is not to use $! as an error indicator in perl. That
doesn't work reliably. Likewise, you can't use 'errno' as an error
indicator in C. _Always_ check the return value.
... or switch to Python. ;-)
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