Re: mkdir die

in reply to mkdir die

I posted this on of the duplicate copies of this node but it got reaped so here it is again. As blakem pointed out, it's a matter of operator precedence. This gets interpreted as mkdir $DIR_LOCATION, (0777 || die "sigh"); Use parens on your mkdir call:

eval
{
  mkdir ($DIR_LOCATION, 0777) || die "sigh";
};
if ($@)
{
      print "Never gets here to display error message.";
}
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blakem's solution works too since or has lower precedence than || but I personally prefer parens and ||. Either way works fine -- do whicher you like better. --RT

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Re: Re: mkdir die by zakzebrowski (Curate) on Oct 22, 2001 at 18:02 UTC
Thanks everyone. Forgot about the ()'s & precedence... Using opera for my web browser and for some reason it reposted the question for the duplicate nodes... sorry about that. Anyway, thanks for helping me get it to work! ---- Zak	[reply]

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