Re^3: File read errors

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Re^4: File read errors by cdarke (Prior) on Jan 14, 2010 at 09:21 UTC
Pardon me saying this, but your real coding error was not to check the return result from open.	[reply]
Re^4: File read errors by Anonymous Monk on Jan 14, 2010 at 05:06 UTC
Low blood sugar? Sleep deprivation? Multitasking? Don't sell yourself short, I think you just need a better mantra. To remind myself everything can fail I often use, the also motivational: success or else! Programming Mantras, The Module Mantra	[reply]
Re^4: File read errors by Anonymous Monk on Jan 14, 2010 at 12:42 UTC
that is not an error!, sometimes you would write a script that would be saved - by default - to the current directory and would work on the current directory, without having to specify a path!, check cwd to know the current working directory the script is saved in...Your error was that you did not tell your program what to do in case it could not open a file handle... beat yourself over that one!!! `Open(FH, "something.txt") or die ("could not open it $!\n");` [download] and also through IO::Handle `use strict; use warnings; use IO::Handle; my $fh = IO::Handle->new; $fh->open('something.txt') or die("could not open file $!\n");` [download] Watch your language out of courtesy!!!!	[reply] [d/l] [select]