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Re^3: Simplify parsing a file

by chromatic (Archbishop)
on Apr 02, 2007 at 19:36 UTC ( [id://607913]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: Simplify parsing a file
in thread Simplify parsing a file

No. Why would it be? There's no system error. There's merely a usage error.

You didn't make a system call that failed ($!) and there's no caught exception ($@). Your program didn't get called with any arguments, which your code detects itself, and there's no more information to provide about the source of the error--you know exactly what the source of the error is!

Now I prefer to write that code as:

die "No files to process\n" unless @ARGV;

... mostly because I prefer the boolean check of the number of elements in @ARGV to checking the number of the last array index.

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