Craig,
        can you give me an idea where this should go in my original code.
Where will Perl jump to if the <INFILE> fails?

Rob.

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig A. Berry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 November 2003 14:21
To: Atkinson, Robert; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: File Read Error


At 9:04 AM -0500 11/3/03, Henderson, Jordan (Contractor) (DAASC) wrote:
>The <> operator just stops on EOF or error. 
>
>You have to explicitly access the error codes.  Try printing the system
variable
>$! at this point. 

Or $^E, which should give you the full VMS error message.
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