On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Dean Theophilou wrote:
> I would like to exit a perl program such that upon exiting, it will return a
> text string to the calling program. How would I go about doing this?
>
> exit $SomeTextString;
>
> doesn't work, since "exit" evaluates the above scalar as an integer. Thank you
> in advance.
Return a text-string in what manner? If the calling program is picking
something out of STDIN, then you will want to use die:
die "Error doing something" if $some_error_condition;
-- Brett
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