Roger Burton West writes: > What's a good way of opening a file as read-only, and failing if it > doesn't exist?
Like Leo (who mentioned it yesterday) I find it useful to use Path::Class for all dealings with filenames. > open IN,"<$cfg"; > if (eof IN) { > die "bad config file $cfg\n"; > } I'd write that as: use Path::Class qw<file>; my $in = (file $cfg)->openr; Then use $in instead of IN throughout the rest of the code. Path::Class is arguably overkill in this case -- where you aren't actually manipulating the file's path in any way -- but I've found it preferable to have the simplicity of standardizing on always using Path::Class everywhere (rather than to open files in different ways depending on where the filename came from). Cheers Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2