in reply to I've never seen this syntax before
no... the 2>&1 redirects stderr to stdout, so stderr and stdout from the command goes into $txt. if the sub ends with a print, the print will always return true unless it was unable to print. So the sub will probably almost always return true, the not will make the funtion return false. If it can't print, the return will be true... odd code...
- Ant
Re: Re: I've never seen this syntax before
by ChuckularOne (Prior) on Apr 04, 2001 at 23:27 UTC
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I now see what's going on here. There is no || die on the file open. This freaky thing is testing to see if the file opened AFTER trying to write to it. Cool I can rip it out and put a file open || die in there.
Good thing the guy who wrote this doesn't work here anymore.
Your Humble Servant,
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