System() errors

[jjjon]

Don't know if this is actually possible or not, but I want to run a system command from a perl script using system(), and I want to catch any errors from the system command. I have...

$x = system("c:\syscom.exe"

if the syscom.exe returns an error, i want to be able to go off and do some error handling.

(Note: My Perl is VERY poor!!)
Thanks for any help

 

[jjjon]

Sorry, just noticed a previous post about this!!

 

[julie25]

Hye,

to catch the event error, what you can do is:

my $return_code = 0xfff $ system("your command"
if($return_code ne 0){&ErrorMsg;}

Julie