Hi. I'm finding a peculiarity on file open (perl 5.8.3) that I can't find any explanation for in the doc. When I call open as a command: open $REQUESTFILE, '<', $aldbRequestFile || die "Unable to open ALdb Request file $aldbRequestFile: $!\n"; die never gets invoked when the file doesn't exist. Yet, when I call it as a function: open (my $REQUESTFILE, '<', $aldbRequestFile) || die "Unable to open ALdb Request file $aldbRequestFile: $!\n"; die works as expected. Can one of the perl gurus please explain this? Thanks, Rick Thanks very much ikegami and kennethk! Didn't even think of precedence

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