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Re^2: Handling non-fatal method error strings without exceptions or globals?

by sleepingsquirrel (Chaplain)
on Jan 19, 2005 at 16:51 UTC ( [id://423435]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Handling non-fatal method error strings without exceptions or globals?
in thread Handling non-fatal method error strings without exceptions or globals?

Or, you could use wantarray to eliminate the caveat... 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$result = fun();
print "$result\n";
($result, $error) = fun();
print "$result, $error\n";

sub fun
{
    return wantarray ? ("stuff","Error") : "stuff"
}

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