Evaluates EXPR and exits immediately with that value. Example:
See also die. If EXPR is omitted, exits with 0
status. The only
universally recognized values for EXPR are 0
for success and 1
for error; other values are subject to interpretation depending on the
environment in which the Perl program is running. For example, exiting
69 (EX_UNAVAILABLE) from a sendmail incoming-mail filter will cause
the mailer to return the item undelivered, but that's not true everywhere.
Don'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.
The exit function does not always exit immediately. It
calls any defined END
routines first, but these END
routines may
not themselves abort the exit. Likewise any object destructors that
need to be called are called before the real exit. END
routines and
destructors can change the exit status by modifying $? .
If this is a problem, you can call
POSIX::_exit($status) to avoid END
and destructor
processing. See perlmod for details.
Portability issues: exit in perlport.