newbie question...can't die..whod a thunk it?

[die]

Is there any reason the script below should not print the message after
'die'?Thanks.
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$var1='a';
$var2='b';

print"Content-type:text/html\n\n";

$var1 eq "$var2" or die "PERL die function\n";
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[Anno Siegel]

Is there any reason the script below should not print the message after
'die'?Thanks.
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$var1='a';
$var2='b';

print"Content-type:text/html\n\n";

$var1 eq "$var2" or die "PERL die function\n";
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No.

Anno

 

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Is there any reason the script below should not print the message after
'die'?Thanks.
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$var1='a';
$var2='b';

print"Content-type:text/html\n\n";

$var1 eq "$var2" or die "PERL die function\n";
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No. However, die statements are printed to STDERR by default, so if you
run the script from the browser, i.e. as a CGI script, you won't see the
message on the screen. To change that, you can add this line at the
beginning of the script:

use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';