Is the "lot of extra stuff" the stack trace? If it is, then don't use
`confess` use `croak` or `die`. `confess` is giving you a stack trace.
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It wasn't clear to me if you want to display call stack and detailed error
information or not. Usually you don't want detailed information for a user,
just a simple error message to avoid confusion and to not help certain hack
attempts (an attacker gain information on the internals of your app). I
Yes, in part what I'm saying is I need to do more advanced error handling.
croak and die don't give the calling line number.
Page security is already taken care of. The script in question accepts a
student ID (told by the student to an office worker) and prints a contract
on the office printer f
Everything is now working great with the Perl script! Lots of new code,
but it is emailing me errors (other than manually entered ID not found),
and doesn't display anything to the user other than my error message thanks
to:
use File::Spec;
and right before calling confess doing
open STDERR, '>'
