Re: open failure code

In addition to the useful advice you've got so far, I would like to point out that programming with flag variables is not always a good idea.

See this discussion on flag variables for more material on this subject.

HTH

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Re: Re: open failure code by RolandGunslinger (Curate) on Nov 26, 2003 at 23:32 UTC
Excellent advice. Using flag variables is a bad habit I've developed over the last 8 years. Thanks very much for your helpful response, and thanks everybody else. I feel like such an idiot, but at least I'm smarter than I was before.	[reply]
Re^3: open failure code by Nkuvu (Priest) on Nov 26, 2003 at 23:39 UTC
Nope, an idiot would have asked "My Perl code doesn't work. Why?" (without anything else, such as code, examples, assumptions, et cetera).	[reply]