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Re^2: stat : error handling

by gepebril69 (Scribe)
on Jan 03, 2013 at 14:08 UTC ( [id://1011455]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: stat : error handling
in thread stat : error handling

Thx Johngg

I stick to the non-die solutions. They are not real handy in 24/7 operational systems.... ;)

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Re^3: stat : error handling
by Athanasius (Archbishop) on Jan 03, 2013 at 14:20 UTC

    Well, you don’t need to use die to get information from $!:

    #! perl use Modern::Perl; for my $file ('465_SoPW.pl', 'Non-Existent.txt') { if (my @stats = stat $file) { say "File '$file' last modified: ", $stats[9]; } else { say "stat failed for file '$file': $!"; } }

    Output (on my machine):

    0:17 >perl 466_SoPW.pl File '465_SoPW.pl' last modified: 1357188675 stat failed for file 'Non-Existent.txt': No such file or directory 0:17 >

    Hope that helps,

    Athanasius <°(((><contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

Re^3: stat : error handling
by johngg (Canon) on Jan 03, 2013 at 16:05 UTC

    The solution was $! and, as Athanasius points out, die had nothing to do with it other than to illustrate that the variable is available ;-)

    Cheers,

    JohnGG

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