Hi,
I have a script that reads thru a load of files in a directory, takes the title, and date then save the title, and the date converted to Unix time format in a database. The trouble is some of the dates are throwing my script. How do I carry on running the script and just send the error to standard error?

My troublesome function is thus....

 @time_arr = split(/-/,$components[1]);
       $time_arr[1] = $time_arr[1] -1;
       $unix_time = timelocal(0,0,0,$time_arr[2],$time_arr[1],$time_ar
+r[0]);

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It dies when one of the date components is out of range.

I run the script like this and would like execution to continue.

perl ./files.pl > files.txt 2&>1 &

Hope someone can help


./stew :}

In reply to Continuing with program execution even when function gives error by stew

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