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Re: die and subroutine combo

by crouchingpenguin (Priest)
on Oct 08, 2003 at 13:22 UTC ( #297571=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to die and subroutine combo

Simply use the comma operator between your die and your call to mysub() like so:

sub mysub
{
  mail stuff here..
}
open(TMPFILE,"<datafile.txt") || die "Cant open: $!", mysub();

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