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 http://www.chapelperilous.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Idaho state law makes it illegal for a man to give his sweetheart a box of candy weighing less than fifty pounds. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]