G'day shroh,

Firstly, do yourself (and all subsequent maintainers) a favour by removing all the extraneous whitespace your code is littered with and pick (and stick to) some consistent indentation scheme. perlstyle - Perl Style Guide may help you with this.

"I am running a command on each element of an array, ..."

I'm guessing this is @nodelist; although, I'm not entirely sure. You are running a command for every element of that array. Below, I've just referred to @command_array: I'll leave you to modify as appropriate.

"I am handling the errors in a subroutine."

I see "sub processError {...}" but you don't call it anywhere. I'll assume this is what you're referring to.

Near the top of your script, add: 

my @command_array;
my $command_error_count = 0;

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Limit the scope of these with an anonymous block if necessary.

In "sub processError {...}", increment $command_error_count.

When processing is finished, you can then access (for your log entry):

— Ken

In reply to Re: Error Handling the Perl script by kcott
in thread Error Handling the Perl script by shroh

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