Hi Girish, et al. This has been an interesting and opinionated introduction to Perl. Thanks!
A note about a module that has helped me a lot to debug my Perl data structures from the very beginning - Data::Dumper >From perlmonks.org (http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=31714): Item Description: takes a variable ( or reference to a variable) and 'unrolls' or dumps it out for inspection Review Synopsis: invaluable for object design and debugging complicated data structure Coming from a Perl Monk, that is high praise indeed. Its usage is very straightforward: use Data::Dumper; local $Data::Dumper::Indent = 1; print "DEBUG: Your-variable: ", Dumper (\<your-variable-here); It is an idiom in most of my Perl scripts. Interesting side-note: its author, Gurusamy Sarathy, is probably the only Indian who has been a Perl Pumpking, aka release manager. Link to an old (2000) interview: http://www.pinjax.com/gsar.html. Regards, Sameer _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
