Filter::Microsoft - User friendly error messages in Perl
use Filter::Microsoft; open FH, $filename or die "Could not open $filename: $!";
This module is a drop-in-replacement and can be used in existing scripts and modules. It makes $! user friendly, like in Microsoft software.
$! usually contains technical descriptions like "No such file or directory" or "No space left on device". This is useful for developers, but users need error messages they understand.
Microsoft understands users. You may have noticed how user friendly Microsoft software is. Because even Microsoft's software has bugs, the people in Redmond had to come up with simpler error messages.
Filter::Microsoft brings those friendly error messages to Perl.
User friendly messages are used only when $! is in quotelike operators. This allows you to send the real error message over the Internet without letting the user know.
RFC's: 527, 748, 1097, 1149, 1216, 1217, 1313, 1437, 1438, 1605, 1606, 1607, 1925, 2100, 2321, 2322, 2323, 2324, 2325, 2549, 2550, 2551, 2795, 3091, 3092, 3093 3251, 3252, 3514
Juerd Waalboer <juerd@cpan.org> <http://juerd.nl/>
Copyright 2003 by Juerd
This library is not free software; you cannot redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
Please read EULA.txt for the full text of the End User License Agreement.
To install Filter::Microsoft, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Filter::Microsoft
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Filter::Microsoft
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.