Re: Source Grabber

I don't see anything obvious right away, but you can modify your code to give more information. Normally, when you open a file, you want to make sure it was successful:
open(LOG,">$mylogfile) || die "Can't open $mylogfile: $!\n";

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Re^2: Source Grabber by Andrew_Levenson (Hermit) on Mar 30, 2006 at 00:05 UTC
Okay, I understand that, it makes sense. Just one question. What is `$!` and what does it do?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Source Grabber by moklevat (Priest) on Mar 30, 2006 at 00:27 UTC
From `perldoc perlvar`: "$! If used numerically, yields the current value of the C "errno" variable...If used as a string, yields the corresponding system error string."	[reply] [d/l]