On Jun 14, 6:54 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anand Kumar) wrote:
> I would like to know if there is any possibilty to handle a situation where
> in while executing a perl script if i press a Control-C (or terminate the
> execution explicitly) then my code should be in a position to handle it and
> display a predefined message(or specifically execute predefined code for
> cleanup) and then actually exit the code execution.
CTRL-C tells the shell to send a SIGINT to the currently executing
process. Therefore, all you need to do is have your program define a
SIGINT handler:
$SIG{INT} = sub {
print "Nyah-Nyah, you're CTRL-C doesn't scare me!!\n";
};
Paul Lalli
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