Dear Monks,

I am newbie to Perl and I am trying my best to write more effective scripts and make it more elegant. Since last week I am working on automating the manual process which runs over the network to achieve certain task.

Before running the main process which will start executing listed commands in configration file one by one am thinking of doing some checks to make sure every thing is in right place to trap possible common failures.

My concept of doing the check is to have a hash which contains check list commands,
my %checkList =
(
    DB => DbName, 
    configFile=> filename,
    iniFile=> filename,
    remoteHOST=>name
);

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pass this hash to subroutine,
initilaCheck(\%checkList) || die ¨Check failed!¨;

sub initialCheck { # Iterate over the hash and do following, 1: Check config file in defined location -if failed return; 2: Check connection to Database -if failed return; 3: Check the existence of .ini file in defined location. -if failed return 4. Check connection to Remote hoest, - if failed return return 1; }

Now I am wondering if there is any better way than this to make this process more elegant? Please do suggest.
Thanks

In reply to How to make check process more elegant by Anonymous Monk

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