Hello,
after struggling a bit with my first Perl program I got stuck in a weird situation..., wherein a file was shown to be loaded successfully but was not processed (as I did not realize it was not closed). I believe it has to do with missing EOF, but even with strict and perl -w, it did not report any error. After discussing with other Perl users who pointed that calling a system command (which mysteriously solved the problem) did the trick as system call closes the open fork, which again I beg to differ, as it means one cannot use system command when a file is being written (and data was still being displayed).

I suspect incorporating appropriate error in such cases would be really useful. But what I would like to confirm is that the error was solely due to missing EOF. I would be happy if someone can clarify me on this. I use Perl 5.8.1 (Mdk9.2).
The code and input files to reproduce the problems are:
http://www.geocities.com/qhayaal/maulya.pl
http://www.geocities.com/qhayaal/wHyd.txt
Complete info of the problem:
http://perlguru.com/gforum.cgi?post=22053;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread

jdporter - edited: added <br> tags; added square brackets to URLs.

In reply to Error not reported while processing an open file by qhayaal

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