in reply to Re^2: Writing a database lookup tool
in thread Writing a database lookup tool

Forget your quaint "offline" concept.

The laptop is the server (and the client).

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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