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From:
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
Date:
March 1, 2002 12:07
Subject:
Re: die handler : posting again.
Message ID:
Pine.GSO.4.21.0203011506120.6736-100000@crusoe.crusoe.net
On Mar 1, Sethi, Pradeep said:

>I have this in my code :
>
>local $SIG{__DIE__} = \&die_handler;
>
>sub die_handler {
>  my (@vars)=@_;
>  print STDERR "\nfirst : " . $vars[0];
>  print STDERR "\nsecond : " . $vars[1];
>}
>
>if i give :
>
>die ('goo','foo','bar');
>
>Then I get the output :
>
>first : goofoobar at out.pl line 233.
>
>second :
>
>I want to have the three arguments in an array.

Sorry, but the arguments to die() are concatenated.  I don't think there's
a workaround, apart from writing your own function to use instead of
die().

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