Aldebaran:

Regarding part of your your question "I'm looking for a way to make the failure of mkdir more informative for the case that the directory already exists. I keep the mkdir line so that it will work the first time it is used. Every subsequent time, it fails, and $! is stone silent.", I'd suggest creating a function that checks whether the directory exists before creating it, something like (untested):

sub createDir {
    my $dirName = shift;
    if (-e $dirName) {
        if (-d $dirName) {
            return "Directory $dirName already exists!";
        }
        else {
            return "Can't create $dirName because there's a file in th
+e way!";
        }
    }
    mkdir $dirName or return $!;
}

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...roboticus

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In reply to Re: using online translation engines with perl by roboticus
in thread using online translation engines with perl by Aldebaran

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