Points well taken graff. I'm embarrassed to say, I have not used eval to trap errors. How about a little lesson here... if I were to trap the error in the OP would it look something like this?
eval { uploader($dir, $name) };
print "There was a problem uploading your file: $@" if ($@);
sub uploader {
my ($upload_dir, $filename) = @_;
...
open UPLOADFILE, ">$upload_dir/$filename" or die;
}
So, I can go ahead and die and the eval will trap and return the error without fatally terminating the script? Thanks!
—Brad
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