Hi

Well when I first ran into this problem I thought that it would be a simple problem to solve. but I can't seem to figure it out. The problem occurs when I am using File::Find to recusivly search a direcotry for files. The problem is that when i get to a directory that doesn't exist it prints out.

Can't stat e:\logs: No such file or directory

I have to search many directories and if the program doesn't find one it just spits out this message and goes on to the next one. Well I want to be able to know if it couldn't not find that direcotry.

Well at first i tried setting a variable equal to tbe return value.

my $temp =  find ({wanted =>  \&wanted,bydepth =>0},"e:\\logs",);

But the problem was that even if it worked or if it didn't find the directory it would return zero. So next I tried to eval the statement and to catch the error that way.

eval{
     find ({wanted =>  \&wanted,bydepth =>0},"e:\\logs",)
    }; warn $@ if $@;

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But it didn't catch the error

I know that there is a module out there called "exceptions" to use try and catch but I installed it and it tells me i need to install "methodmaker". And I don't even know if exceptions will work. I know that there is also something that is called "backticks" that is used to get what is outputed to the screen (i think). Is there a simple way to figure out if it returned an error or not??

any help would be great thanks,

Victor

In reply to catching errors from file::find by VicBalta

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