in reply to perl glob and an exception

There is no need for glob to allow that. The standard mechanism is eval to catch exceptions in Perl.

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Re^2: perl glob and an exception
by proxy-man (Initiate) on Sep 25, 2015 at 09:49 UTC
    eval can catch runtime error, it does not work for a case below:

    user@host: mkdir ~/test

    user@host: touch ~/test/file1.txt

    user@host: chmod 000 ~/test 

    ### perl code 

my $dir   = '/home/user/test';
my @files = eval { glob("$dir/*.txt") };

print "$@" if $@;           # here is no runtime error
print Dumper(\@files);      # shows an empty list

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      So, what is your question? If there is no exception, you can't catch it either.

      Maybe you wanted to ask how glob can tell you whether there was a problem with one of the filespecs?

      For that, you will have to use opendir and readdir instead, and check for errors yourself.

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        You are right, Sir :) The question was about - how glob can tell me if there is an issue with a file system. E.g. I don't have a permissions etc.
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