Re: Bad file descriptor error

Maybe you want to improve your error message to also output the offending line, instead of only outputting the number of the offending line?

die "Unknown format in file '$file' line $. : [$_]";
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Re^2: Bad file descriptor error by zing (Beadle) on Sep 05, 2012 at 08:24 UTC
Sorry for that,but this is the only error Im getting :- `Unknown format list.txt. Bad file descriptor at code.pl line 30, <$fh> + line 41.` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Bad file descriptor error by choroba (Cardinal) on Sep 05, 2012 at 08:25 UTC
And what is on the line 41 of list.txt? An empty line? لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply]
Re^4: Bad file descriptor error by zing (Beadle) on Sep 05, 2012 at 08:31 UTC
Christ!!!! yes that was it. Thanks a lot to you all. God bless.	[reply]
Re^5: Bad file descriptor error by Corion (Patriarch) on Sep 05, 2012 at 09:01 UTC
Re^3: Bad file descriptor error by Corion (Patriarch) on Sep 05, 2012 at 08:26 UTC
So, have you looked at line 30? What have you done to improve the error message that line 30 produces? Maybe consider reading die to find out what that subroutine does.	[reply]