At 4:48 PM -0600 1/20/02, Stanley, Jack wrote:
>I have looked everywhere on the web and I cannot find an example of
>returning an error string in $! in my XS extention. Does somebody know how
>to do this?
You really can't--$! is a magic variable, and you can't override its
magic like that. $! only gets system errno codes, and prints the
corresponsing errno messages when stringified.
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