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when using eval, you want to check the status of $@ ( and not $? as you have in your snippet )
system calls don't throw errors that you can check with eval.
system returns 0 on success.
$? and $!, which one is which, I tend to have to check the docs.
system
We can define our own system call that will throw an error (die) on failure.
Quick example:
```
sub my_system
{
    system($_[0]) || die "$_[0] failed : $!";
}
eval {
    my_system( "cp xyz.dat abc.dat" );
    my_system("cp xyz.dat2 abc.dat2");
}
if ($@)
{
    print "Error occured : $@\n"
}
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```
In reply to Re: Perl exception - multiple statement by spazm
in thread Perl exception - multiple statement by pradeepbstays

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