Re: Need to capture return code

With $?, you have to be careful that, its value is not exactly what returned from sub process, but $? >> 8 is.

Try this out with those two pieces of code:

system("perl -w c.pl");
print $? >> 8, "\n"; #this gives you 10
print $?; #this gives you 2560
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c.pl:

exit 10;
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Re^2: Need to capture return code by James_Marcinek (Initiate) on Oct 11, 2004 at 19:59 UTC
That statement looks like a redirect into a file (in Unix and NT)? print $? >> 8, "\n"; #this gives you 10 print $?; #this gives you 2560 OOPS, I meant ->I'm not familiar with this obviously ($?>>8) Okay I did a search and found it shifts it over 8 digits	[reply]