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Re: Re: Re: Eval and system()

by busunsl (Vicar)
on Sep 05, 2001 at 17:20 UTC ( [id://110283]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: Eval and system()
in thread Eval and system()

It doesn't mean an error in eval when the command in system() fails.

To check for that you can probably use: 

eval { system("false") and die "command 'false' went wrong!"};
print $@, "\n"

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