>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chris> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Ankur Gupta wrote:
>> No I do not [want to] die so fast.. I want to do some processing based
>> on the died message.
Chris> Fine then.
Chris> eval {
Chris> risky_action();
Chris> }
You forgot a semicolon here, which will make Perl start to think
you mean this to be an "if" modifier instead of a separate if statement.
Wheeee!
Chris> if $@ {
Chris> my $status = $@;
Chris> my $result = do_some_processing();
Chris> die "Got $status, did some processing: $result\n";
Chris> }
Chris> This should work.
Yes, it *should*, and doesn't. :)
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