Re: (tye)Re: A Little review for a little DBI and CGI?

[coolmichael]

It isn't that I doubt you, but I've been getting die error messages from the script while testing it. I tried a few things on the command line

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>perl -e "2==1 or die qw(dying)"
dying at -e line 1.
C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>perl -e "2==1 || die qw(dying)"
dying at -e line 1.
C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>

I'm using ActiveState Perl v5.6.0 on win98 (above) and 5.005_03 linux below

[michael@subtext michael]$ perl -e "2==1 or die qw(dying);"
dying at -e line 1.
[michael@subtext michael]$ perl -e "2==1 || die qw(dying);"
dying at -e line 1.

My copy of the camel is at work (second perl book I bought, the first one was the llama). I'll see what it says about || and or tomorrow.

update:You're completly right Tye. I didn't know the brackets would change things. I've made the change as you suggested.

Also, thank you for your comments. In the reply, I forgot to thank you. That'll teach me to post at 1:00 am.

Edit: chipmunk 2001-03-30

[tye]

open HTML, "startpage" || die "opening startpage: $!\n";

is parsed as: open HTML, ( "startpage" || die "opening startpage: $!\n" ) but the expression "startpage" is always true so the die will never be executed. To test, just change "startpage" to "smartmage" or some other non-existant file name.

The problem is a matter of precedence.

An alternate solution is: open( HTML, "startpage" ) || die "opening startpage: $!\n"; but I'd still use or for that for the sake of robustness (in case someone comes along and remove the parens).

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")