Assign program result or die

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Date: 14 Jul 2004 23:01:23 -0700

Hi,

I'm new to Perl and have a question about return statuses and
errorhandling. I want to do the following.

Execute a program and assign the result to an array and if the program
return an error I want to show the error. Something like this:

my @files = system("$ncftpls -1 -u $USER -p $PASSW
ftp:\/\/$HOST$remote_dir") && die "Could not execute NcFTPLS. Error:
$????";

Of course this does not work but maybe it shows what I want to do? How
do I get the error code ($????) from the program $ncftpls and how
should I write the code?

For info: $ncfptls is NcFTPLS found at http://www.ncftp.com/

Any hints?

Br,

Martin

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