SEI CERT Perl Coding Standard

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This noncompliant code example tries to open a file, and invokes the obsolete die() method if it fails.

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my $file;
open(FILE, "<", $file) or die "error opening $file: stopped";
# work with FILE

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This compliant colution uses the croak() function instead of die().

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use Carp;

my $file;
open(FILE, "<", $file) or croak "error opening $file: stopped";
# work with FILE

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