Need a little help with die function.
OK, I have this example. The following file, needless to say, doesn't exist. If I try to open it, the die should print "No file: " and the STDERR, right? Well, when I try it out, I just get a blank document with none of the text.
open(HEH, "<nofile.html") || die "No file: $!\n";
@blank=<HEH>;
close(HEH);So, what's my problem?
Suzanne posted this at 05:17 — 23rd December 2000.
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Which reminds me of the dated "what's your damage?", lol...
open (HEH, "nofile.html") or die "\n\n\n Oh no! We are missing the most important file! nofile.html! \n\n\n";
I am a little melodramatic in my coding, yes.
Perhaps it can't find "
Vorm posted this at 05:50 — 23rd December 2000.
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Well, I tried it without the "<" to still no avail. *sigh*
japhy posted this at 14:04 — 23rd December 2000.
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The die() and warn() functions print their messages to STDERR, not STDOUT. And in a CGI program, STDERR is connected to the server's error log, and STDOUT is connected to the browser.
Use the CGI::Carp module:
use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';
# guess what that does...
die "oh no, Mr. Bill!";
# that gets sent to the error log AND the browser
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