Re: [MacPerl] Unexpected behaviour with hashes

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 13.21 -0700 1999.08.04, Brian McNett wrote:
>> #slect the input file and create an output file
>> $file= &StandardFile::GetFile("what file do you want", "TEXT");
>> if ($file) {
>> 	open (IN, $file)|| die "hmm, now that's odd......:- $!" ;
>>    } else {
>> 	print".... and next time think before you start clicking on stuff!\n";
>> 	die "user killed script\n";
>>     }

>Also $^E is generally more informative than $!.  <-- my sole useful
>contribution

They are for different things.  For a dieing open(), you should use $!.
For toolbox calls in the Mac modules, you should use $^E.

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