Hi,
I am a newbie, have to fix an issue in existing perl scripts.Kindly assist me with the following.

FileA has a subroutine "funcA" funcA invokes a subroutine "funcB" in another file "FileB".

Now inside funcB in FileB, there is an error due to which it exits from the there. (exit 1 had been used).

Now how do I know about this in funcA. Please note that I can not use "return" in funcB. That is a very big subroutine and changing exit to return -1 or so creates other issues.

Is there a way or any variable that I can check in funcA in FileA that might indicate me that funcB has exited with error.

FileA
sub funcA{
  funcB();
  //how to check if funcB has returned due to "exit 1"
}

FileB
sub funcB{
 ...........
 ...........
 ...........
 if ()
   exit 1;
  ...........
  ...........
}

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In reply to Subroutine to indicate error condition by kk2202

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