On Jul 18, Nikola Janceski said:

>I was wondering what the scope of perlvars (ie. $! and $?) are across
>modules?

Those variables are true globals.  They are seen everwhere.

>In module:
>open file || return -1;
>
>In script:
>Can I use $! here? and will it contain the reason open didn't open (if it
>didn't) in the module?

Yes you can.

-- 
Jeff "japhy" Pinyan      [EMAIL PROTECTED]      http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/
RPI Acacia brother #734   http://www.perlmonks.org/   http://www.cpan.org/
** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 **
<stu> what does y/// stand for?  <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course.
[  I'm looking for programming work.  If you like my work, let me know.  ]


-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to