Perl Programming/Keywords/die

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The die keyword edit

The die comment raises an exception. If called inside an eval(), its message is stuffed into $@, and eval() returns with the undef. If the exception is outside of all enclosing eval()s, the uncaught exception prints LIST to STDERR and exits with a non-zero value. For a specific exit code, exit should be called.

Syntax edit

  die LIST

Examples edit

chdir '/usr/spool/news' or die "Cannot change to directory spool: $!\n"
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