Thanks for your comments. I was surprised, but you seem to
be correct on the open statement. In the perlopentut
document the two different syntax's used are:
open FILE, "foo.txt" or die $!;
#or
open(FILE, "foo.txt") || die $!;
I did not realize
that perl would parse 'or' and '||' differently.
As for the print, you are also correct, but fortunately
my logic still worked. print returns undef if it failed, but
the logic still held because if you use the numeric operator '=='
on undef it is equivalent to 0. So this code will work:
print "hello\n" if undef == 0;
But I modified the code as you suggested to be more
explicit.
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