Re^2: opening missing file inside eval statement

this is exactly what i tried and perl didn't catch the error when the file was missing.

open (INFH, "<$file") {
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I only got an error later when i tried to read from it.

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Re^3: opening missing file inside eval statement by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 08, 2011 at 22:12 UTC
What you show is not even valid Perl (or when it is, it is a snippet, meaningless in itself). Either post the minimal exact code that produces the problem for you, so we can help you better by reproducing the error ourselves. Or run the code I posted above, and look at what output it produces.	[reply]