The fact that in this particular case $! contains something that might look like the right error message doesn't mean the other procedures will be able to use it as well.

The list of errors that can be found in $! is fixed (and OS dependant). You can find out what it is by

$lastmsg='noNSensE';
$i = 0;
$! = $i;
while ($lastmsg ne $!) {
   $lastmsg = ''.$!;
   print "$i: $!\n";
   $i++;
   $! = $i;
}

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Try also:

$! = "Hello world";
print "$!\n";

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So as you see it is possible to change the $!, but you can't give a very specific error message.

What GhodMode wants is 

$ftp->message()

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Of course that doesn't work for the "new Net::FTP", but that was not requested.

Jenda

In reply to Re(4): Net::FTP server errors? by Jenda
in thread Net::FTP server errors? by GhodMode

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