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This guy says that the readline docs don't talk about error messages,
he's correct. Thanks to Chip for helping shape the example code, this
patch explains error handling for readline.
Casey West
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Shooting yourself in the foot with dBase
You buy a gun. Bullets are only available from another company and are
promised to work so you buy them. Then you find out that the next
version of the gun is the one scheduled to actually shoot bullets.
--- perl-current.orig/pod/perlfunc.pod Mon Apr 14 16:47:02 2003
+++ perl-current/pod/perlfunc.pod Thu Apr 24 17:20:12 2003
@@ -3832,7 +3832,21 @@
operator is discussed in more detail in L<perlop/"I/O Operators">.
$line = <STDIN>;
- $line = readline(*STDIN); # same thing
+ $line = readline(STDIN); # same thing
+
+If readline encounters an error, C<$!> will be set with the corresponding
+error message. It can be helpful to check C<$!> when you are reading from
+filehandles you don't trust, such as the tty or a socket. The following
+example uses the operator form of C<readline>, and takes the necessary
+steps to ensure that C<readline> was successful.
+
+ for (;;) {
+ undef $!;
+ $line = <>;
+ die $! if $!;
+ last unless defined $line;
+ # ...
+ }
=item readlink EXPR
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