Re: &process or die

process() is returning a boolean false value so the part after 'or' is executed. Your code means: "process all elements but die at the first failing element". That's maybe not what you want.

Also your function doesn't use a 'return' statement so it returns the return value of the last statement which is 'close()' in this case. Close seems to return false which might be caused be a failing open() in the first place. You can't close a file which you couldn't open.

Do you use use strict; use warnings; ?? If not put it in and look for correlated warnings.

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Re^2: &process or die by steph_bow (Pilgrim) on Apr 18, 2008 at 15:42 UTC
Dear mscharrer Thanks a lot for your help I have taken into consideration what you have said. In fact the last line of my subroutine is: `chdir("$path_to_the_script_directory") or die;` [download] And I do not have any errors (when I do not use "or die" for process() ) But in my operations of process(), I have used : `while (my $line = <$INFILE>){` [download] And when I want to print $_ after the loop, I have : `Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: &process or die by chromatic (Archbishop) on Apr 18, 2008 at 16:36 UTC
And when I want to print $_ after the loop, I have `$_` and `$line` are different variables. The contents of one may or may not reflect the contents of the other.	[reply] [d/l] [select]