Points well taken graff. I'm embarrassed to say, I have not used eval to trap errors. How about a little lesson here... if I were to trap the error in the OP would it look something like this?

eval { uploader($dir, $name) };
print "There was a problem uploading your file: $@" if ($@);

sub uploader {
   my ($upload_dir, $filename) = @_;
   ...
   open UPLOADFILE, ">$upload_dir/$filename" or die;
}

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So, I can go ahead and die and the eval will trap and return the error without fatally terminating the script? Thanks!


—Brad
"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot

In reply to Re^4: Friendly error trapping by bradcathey
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