Yet another strange problem.

I have this code:


Inside neat_error I have an exit so no matter what happens, exit is called.

However....the weird problem I'm encountering is that neat_error keeps being called and the error message is "Is a directory" yet the file is uploaded correctly with the correct filename (yellow.jpg) - how can that be?

Hi,

Is open U, ">$cfg->{UP_DIR}/$file_name" a legal way to open a file (without the parentheses)...?

I always have used
open(HANDLE, ">$filename");

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Matt G

Yes it is fine.

Hmmm... in that case I'd guess that the problem is with $cfg->{UP_DIR}/$file_name

Maybe its value is not as expected?

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Matt G

Time to learn the beauty of stack traces. =) Go to where it's being printed out and add:

use Carp;
Carp::cluck ("how'd I get here?");

then run the script and look at your error log, you'll see a nice stack trace of how you got to that point in the code.

Cheers,

Alex
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Gossamer Threads Inc.

Thanks Alex - will try that in the morning!

Is it just me that gets all these strange problems or it is an everyday part of writing perl scripts?

You're not the only one. I think it's part of any programming language. I run into problems like that all the time, even back when I was programming in c/c++ I would see these kind of problems.

Regards,
Charlie