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The 'die' command, when presented with an argument not terminated with a newline, appends the location where 'die' was called, along the currently selected filehandle, and the current line number of that file, where available. The tieing is irrelevant; '<$fh> line 119' means that $fh is the currently selected filehandle, and 119 is the last line that was read from that file (it should match $.). 119 does not indicate the number of lines in the file.

Dave.

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Re^4: Meaning of this Filehandle Error?
by mmartin (Monk) on Oct 23, 2014 at 15:11 UTC
    Hey Dave, thanks for the reply.

    Ok, that makes sense then. I was wondering because I do certain things in the script like splicing out some lines from that
    file and stuff like that so a few times it would say something like "<$fh> line 101", but when I'd check the file there
    would only be 80 or something less then what it reported... So that makes a little more sense now.

    Do you think I should use something other then "die" there? Maybe just "exit", or something like that?

    Thanks again for the explanation, much appreciated!

    Thanks Again,
    Matt
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