Does die have to be used if opening a file fails?

Question

Most of time, I do something like this:

open FH, ">file.txt" or die "Cann't open file: $!";

Does die have to be used? If I want my script to continue (and simply ignore the error if the file cannot be opened), what should I do?

Answer 1

You might want to do something like

if(open my $fh, ">", "file.txt") {
    # do stuff with file
    close $fh;
}
else {
    # do stuff without file
}