in reply to sub returning undef

One problem I see is that 'undef' is an array of one element.

You should return an empty list: (). That will be treated as false by all conditionals (if unless while until).

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Re: Re: sub returning undef
by exussum0 (Vicar) on May 24, 2004 at 14:42 UTC
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      It would be more appropriate to die on error, and expect the calling code to trap it using:

      eval { 
    # calls go here
};
if ($@) {
    # exception handling here
}

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