Hello Monks,

I'm having an issue i wasn't planning on running into this morning.... thought i've done it before in the past... but i guess i'm reducing to asking for master-help.

I want to have multiple actions occur if an open statement doesn't work. Check out my code below and you'll see what i'm talking about.

thanks!

#!/tps/bin/perl -s

open (my $log_FH, '>', './testlogfile.txt')
    || {
           print "failure to open log file...........";
           die 'Failure to open log file.....';
       }

close($log_FH);

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The issue i get from the above is:

syntax error at ./test.pl line 6, near "die"

Execution of ./test.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

i'm running perl, v5.8.3 built for sun4-solaris Thanks folks

In reply to Multiple actions triggered by failure to open a file by GreenLantern

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