I'll just jump in and promote the use of autodie, a module that takes care of catching file open errors. For quite a while I wrote file operations in C like this:
FILE *pif;
pif = fopen ( $filename, 'r' );
if ( pif == NULL ) {
/* Problem opening file.. */
}
..
fclose ( pif );
When I started writing Perl, I did the same kind of thing ..
open ( my $in_fh, '<', $filename ) or
die "Unable to open $filename for read: $!";
..
close ( $in_fh );
With
autodie, that can be simplified to
use autodie;
open ( my $in_fh, '<', $filename );
..
close ( $in_fh );
I think that's pretty handy.
Alex / talexb / Toronto
Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.