O Wise Monks, I'm using Active State on WinXP, where this little script causes an error, outputted to my msDos command window.
#errorToOut.pl use strict; use warnings; #causes error. print $forgotToDeclareThis
I'd like to capture all errors to a text file to review later. This is for situation I'm having in another program, where I get so many error messages so fast that they scroll of the command line before I can type ctrl-c, so I can't get back to the first error, which is probably the root of all the later evil.

I tried perl errorToOut.pl > output.txt but this simpleminded little attempt of mine didn't work.

Wise monks, can someone help me with this?


In reply to How do I output error messages to a file? by tphyahoo

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