Sorry for the lack of clarity. We have our main file, say homepage.cgi, that will execute 1 of 2 Perl files: x.cgi and y.cgi. Both x.cgi and y.cgi worked correctly, being called by homepage.cgi's do. Someone else went in and modified x.cgi to include the if (-e "/some/file") code that I mentioned above. Executing x.cgi loads, but I know get an error message with the do in homepage.cgi, complaing that the file in x.cgi does not exist. So the issue is that something with the file check in x.cgi causes the do to dork up in homepage.cgi. Hope that makes better sense.

In reply to Re^2: problem with do and file existence. by emilford
in thread problem with do and file existence. by emilford

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