Re: File::Util list_dir question

[holli]

in reply to File::Util list_dir question

straight from the docs:

Flags accepted by new()

--fatals-as-status

Directive to instruct the new File::Util object that when any call to one of its methods results in a fatal error that it should return undef instead of the value(s) that would normally be returned by the call.

Don't take this as a RTFM please, it took me a while to find about that too.

[Anonymous Monk]

Thanks very much holli.

I passed right by it and should have been more attentive...but it is there so I'll call it a lowercase rtfm.

[holli]

No biggie. The interface of File::Util is non intuitive. Normally a method fatals (dies) or returns some kind of false on failure. File::Util does nothing of this.

It uses a halb baked homegrown error handler that, believe it or not, calls exit on a 'fatal' error (like not being able to recurse into a directory).
That's why you cannot trap it with eval nor with try{}catch{} (at least until said flag is specified).

[Tommy]

"Half baked homegrown" ... what do you suggest should be different? To use die instead of exit?