Re: Check if "System" was succesful

[vaevictus]

but for a system related WTDI,

my $result = system("copy bleh blah");
#system returns opposite ... IIRC

if(! $result)
{
   print "success\n";
}
else 
{
   print "oh no!\n";
}

[BazB]

The usual (and slightly more compact) way to check a system call is:

system( $cmd ) == 0 or die "System call failed: $!";

The " == 0" deals with the fact that system returns 0/false on success, not true like most perl functions.