SPUG: die from BEGIN; how suppress ugly message?

Rick Croote rcroot at atl.com
Wed Jan 26 17:01:01 CST 2000


I do not get any ugly messages while using "exit" from within a BEGIN block.
I do get them from "die", no matter what.  I didn't try your method in your
follow up.

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Rick Croote
ATL Ultrasound

----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Maher/CONSULTIX <tim at consultix-inc.com>
To: <spug-list at pm.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 2:00 PM
Subject: SPUG: die from BEGIN; how suppress ugly message?


> SPUGicans,
>
> Does anybody know an elegant, simple (might be asking too much there)
> way to trap/suppress/avoid this kind of ugly message when I call
> exit or die from within BEGIN?
>
> $ turbo_fax
> Usage: turbo_fax  file1 [file2 . . .]
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./in_place line 19.
> $
>
> In some cases, I can set a flag in BEGIN and have "$fatal and die"
> as the first line of the program body, but if I'm using -n/-p, I
> need to get a line of input before dying, which ruins that approach.
>
> There should be a way . . . What it is? 8-}
>
> -Tim
> P.S. Going for a personal daily-posting record today!  If I don't shutup,
> as the list-owner I'll have to rebuke myself!
>
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