[plug] Perl $? equivalent

[Mark O'Shea]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Jay Turner wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Can anyone tell me what (if any) the Perl equivalent to Bash's '$?' is.
>
> I am calling a program (`cat mailFile | sendmail -t`) from a perl script and
> I want to check that it has executed properly or not.
>
> In bash I would just "if [ $? -ne 0 ]" but I don't think I can locate an
> equivalent in Perl.
>
If I remember rightly:
$questionmark = system("cat mailFile | sendmail -t");
this should be what you need.

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