SPUG: Two errors I need hashing out

[David Dyck]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 at 10:26 -0800, Susanne Bullo <sweetsue at sweethomes.com>...:

> Yes, actually I do intend that - the username to log in is just for the
> database.  Then there are several users within that database so $username
> would have to be overwritten for each one.
>
> How do I go about checking the return result on my open()?

in perldoc -f open it states
  Open returns nonzero upon success, the undefined value otherwise.
so test the return result.

It also states:

  When opening a file, it's usually a bad idea to
               continue normal execution if the request failed,
               so "open" is frequently used in connection with
               "die".  Even if "die" won't do what you want (say,
               in a CGI script, where you want to make a nicely
               formatted error message (but there are modules
               that can help with that problem)) you should
               always check the return value from opening a file.
               The infrequent exception is when working with an
               unopened filehandle is actually what you want to
               do.

If you're doing CGI, you may want to add
 use CGI::Carp;


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