I'm having a tough time getting a failure code back into my PERL program when invoking SQL Plus via the system command. I have run_package.sql 
begin
  forbesc.test_exception_pg.main('orafail');
end;
/
exit

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and invoke_sqlplus.pl 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my $sqlplus = "sqlplus -s chuckster/im_in\@develo";
my $file = "\@/home/prodadm/scripts/run_package.sql";
my $var = (system($sqlplus . " " . $file));
my $out = $? >> 8;
print "The out value is '$out'.\n";

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I'm pretty sure that the reason I'm always getting a 0 for $out is because the 'exit' in run_program.sql is executing successfully, but I want to know when the Oracle package is not executed successfully. I know it's not in the above case, as the output looks like: 
[prodadm@ora4 scripts]$ ./invoke_sqlplus.pl 
begin
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01476: divisor is equal to zero
ORA-06512: at "FORBESC.TEST_EXCEPTION_PG", line 12
ORA-06512: at line 2


The out value is '0'.

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I'm at a loss. Could someone help plant a fire under me and get me going in the right direction? Thanks, Chuckster

In reply to invoking Oracle's SQL Plus, return code always indicates success by chuckster

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