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Also you're not checking to see how perl views your code with B::Deparse , as recommended by Basic debugging checklist
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Re^3: problems with truncate function (deparse)
by david2008 (Scribe) on Jun 26, 2013 at 09:26 UTC
    Hi, You are correct :-)
    I ran the perl with the B::Deparse module
    Perl parses the line 
    truncate $fh,0 || die "could not truncate $dcs_log_file: $!";

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    to 
     truncate $fh, die("could not truncate ${log_file}: $!");

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    Now i also understand the difference between || and or :-)

    In || it makes 0|| before truncate.
    with or it would make the truncate before

    Thanks,
    David
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      See also the precedence table in perlop.

      --MidLifeXis

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