in reply to Re: Network Programming With Perl example 1
in thread Network Programming With Perl example 1

Unknown error isn't very useful, but the error still has a number. To get the error number (which you can later look up on msdn) use int (as in int($!)  int($^E)).
C:\>perl -e"$!=122;warn $!; $!=333;warn $!; die int $!" Unknown error at -e line 1. Unknown error at -e line 1. 333 at -e line 1.

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