Name
exit
Synopsis
exit status
Exits the current Perl process immediately with that
value given by status. This could be
the entire Perl script you are running or only a child process
created by fork. Here’s a
fragment that lets a user exit the program by typing x or X:
$ans = <STDIN>; exit 0 if $ans =~ /^[Xx]/;
If status is omitted, the
function exits with 0. You
shouldn’t use exit to abort a
subroutine if there’s any chance that someone might want to trap
whatever error happened. Use die instead, which can be trapped by an
eval.
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