Re: close statement issue

Umm... I guess this couldn't be the cause because it seems to work correctly when I try it but...

close MAIL || die "$!";

contains the high-precedence || operator between unparenthesized operands. Perhaps your perl version is a quirky one that parses the thing incorrectly. You can't spoil anything by saying

close(MAIL) or die "$!";

Just my two cents.

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Re^2: close statement issue by ysth (Canon) on Mar 02, 2007 at 08:16 UTC
That is correctly parsed as close(MAIL) \|\| die("$!"). See the precedence table in perlop; close is a "named unary operator" and has higher precedence than \|\|. I'm looking for a job.	[reply]