How to exit a perl script without looking anything after it

[juo]

How can I exit a Perl script without looking at any code in the perl script after I have placed an exit. I tried exit; but it still looks at the code after my exit and gives error messages. Pieter

[azatoth]

Well, If you're looking to put stops in the code that will exit after an "error", you can use the die command.

 open(FH,"log.log") || die "Cannot open log.log : $!\n";

After looking at your other question, and trying to answer it, I would suggest reading "Learning Perl, 2nd Edition".

Go to www.oreilly.com and check it out.

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[davorg]

What do you mean by 'looks at'?

Are you trying to prevent some code from being compiled? In that case you can't do it using exit as Perl compiles the whole file before executing it.

Perhaps you could comment out the code that you don't want compiled? Using =pod ... =cut is a good way to comment out large chunks of code.

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and the boring jobs bearable" - me

[Blue]

If you have code that you'd like the program to ignore, put it after a __END__. That tells Perl that there is no more code after that.

=Blue
...you might be eaten by a grue...

[dsb]

You probably want to try commenting said code out. The interpreter will compile any code it finds. As far as Perl knows, your exit could be on only one branch of a conditional statement. POD format commenting is a good way to comment out large chunks of code. -kel