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Just a personal preference on my part: I never put anything other than "$filename: $!\n" in the 'die' string - because it can lead to nonsense messages like this: 

test.txt: cannot find input file Is a directory
test.txt: cannot find input file Permission denied

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etc. 

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Re^3: opening missing file inside eval statement
by apl (Monsignor) on Jan 09, 2011 at 14:02 UTC
    Agreement, though I like to say "opening '$filename': $!\n". This way, I
    • know where the problem was (as opposed to writing or positioning the file)
    • can see if there's a null or CRLF terminated string as the filename.
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