Just want to thank eveyone who responded. I have used a combination of all the resolutions. This was the first time I used this list and was surprised how fast and accurate I got a repsonse.
Thanks
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Daniel Gardner
<daniel@danielga To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rdner.org> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Using die but not break
out of the script
12/07/2001 02:52
PM
Please respond
to Daniel
Gardner
Friday, December 07, 2001, 7:38:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Is there a way to use die but not break the entire script?
> system ("dir $servervolume > dirinfo") || die "cant get dir info";
> I want it that if does die to assign a value of zero to a variable? Is
> that posssible?
how about:
$var = system ("dir ...");
it'll be 0 on success, which isn't quite what you want, but probably
just as useful.
check perldoc -f system
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