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a statement; for example: if (open(DATA,$file)) { ... } else { die "Error: Couldn't open the file $!"; } Here variable $! returns the actual error message Alternatively, we can reduce the statement to one line in situations where it makes sense to do so; for example: die "Error: Something went wrong\n" if (error()); Using unless The unless function is the logical opposite to if: statements can completely bypass the success status and die in perl script only be executed if the expression returns false. For example: unless(chdir("/etc")) { die "Error: Can't change directory!: $!"; } The unless statement is best used when you want to raise an error or alternative only if the expression fails. The statement also makes sense when used in a single-line statement: die "Error: Can't change directory!: $!" unless(chdir("/etc")); Here we die only if the chdir operation fails, and it reads nicely. Using the Conditional Operator For very short tests, you can use the conditional operator: print(exists($hash{value}) ? 'There' : 'Missing',"\n"); It's not quite so clear here what we are trying to achieve, but the effect is the same as using an if or unless statement. The conditional operator is best used when you want to quickly return one of two values within an expression or statement. The Warn Function The warn function just raises a warning, a message is printed to STDERR, but no further action is taken. chdir('/etc') or warn "Can't change directory"; The Die Function The die function works just like warn, except that it also calls exit. Within a normal script, this function has the effect of immediately terminating execution. chdir('/etc') or die "Can't change directory"; Reporting Errors Within Modules There are two different situations we need to be able to handle: Reporting an e
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Q&A Tutorials Poetry RecentThreads NewestNodes Donate What'sNew on Sep 27, 2014 at 11:31UTC ( #1102209=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help?? v_melnik has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1102209 question: Dear colleagues, I think, it's a matter of religion, but I'd like to get to know more on how other people, more experienced, prefer to handle errors/exceptions in http://edumaven.com/perl-programming/open-file-error-handling respect to the structure of your programs. Let me describe how I'm doing it now and, if you have some time to share your experience, I'd be very perl error grateful to you for describing how do you prefer to do it. My own "rules" for myself are quite simple. Don't die() while executing a subrotine or method. Only the main module can die() if something goes wrong. Nobody can predict where the class will be used, so an unexpected die() can break the caller's logic. If perl error handling I've got an exception inside of a subroutine, the subroutine may return(undef). If everything's fine, it return's some value (it can be true or false - no matter), but if some error has been occuried (e.g. if we can't get data from the database), the undef shall be returned. That's okay, but how to let the caller know what's happened with the subroutine? As I think, the caller must have some explaination to be able to write something to the log-file or to show the error message to the operator. So, there is one more rule. Any class may have the "errstr" attribute, so if its' methor returned undef, the caller may get the explaination from this attribute. So, usually it looks like this: package SomeClass; #... sub some_method { # ... eval { die("Oops!"); }; if($@) { $self->{'errstr'} = "Something has gone wrong: $@"; return(undef) } # ... } #... package main; #... my $result = $obj->some_method; unless(defined($result)) { die("Can't SomeClass->some_method(): $obj->{'errstr'}"); } #... [download] And, when something
$filename = "input.txt"; if (open my $in, "<", $filename) { # do your thing here # no need to explicitly close the file } else { warn "Could not open file '$filename'. $!"; } # here the $in filehandle is not accessible anymore A more Perlish way to open a file and exit with error message if you could not open the file: examples/files/open_with_die.pl #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $filename = "input.txt"; open(my $fh, "<", $filename) or die "Could not open file '$filename'. $!"; # do your thing here close $fh; Table of Contents (t) Indexed keywords (k) Copyright 2014 Gabor Szabo Last updated at 2016-10-04T08:08:00