Re: [MacPerl] Perl tool status/result/exit code always zero?

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 2:34 -0400 1999.10.13, Joshua Juran wrote:
>Is it just me, or does the MPW Perl tool always return zero status?  I'd
>like to know if my script returned a failure code or died.
>
>Please shoot me discreetly if this is a FAQ.

It returns whatever you exit with.

  #!perl -wl
  `perl -e 'exit 0'`;
  print $?;
  `perl -e 'exit 1'`;
  print $?;
  `perl -e 'exit 2'`;
  print $?;

Returns:

  0
  1
  2

$? is the status variable.  Were you checking something else?

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