On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think my main problem is getting an eror out of perl which is
> recognised by a .bat file. I have set a return code in the program
> from a subroutine but it is not getting to the operating system.
You should use 'exit' to return a value from a Perl program back to the
OS. 0 means a normal exit, 1 means an error condition. In a typical
batch file, you can do something like 'IF ERRORLEVEL = 1 GOTO
ERRORHANDLER'. DOS Batch files don't do very well handling error
conditions. I would recommend writing a wrapper script in Perl instead to
run your secondary Perl programs, or move to an environment that has
better scripting tools. On Windows, CygWin or MKSTools offer most of
the advantages of Unix scripting tools, like bash or ksh.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
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