Looks like you're pointing me in the right direction. so I will pose a question: I am just dropping print statements in the package (the module).

 # In the main .pl
 use ThisPackage;
 ...
 my $the_package = ThisPackage->new();
 ...
 (this other guys code) 
 print "What is the value of var_here? $var_here\n"; # my debug statem
+ent gets printed as What is the value of var_here? CornFlakes
 (more of this other guys code) 

 # In the package:
  package ThisPackage;
 ...
 sub new{
    my ($class, $self)=@_;
    ...
 }
 (this other guys code) 
 print "What is the value of var_in_package? $var_in_package\n"; # my 
+debug statement does NOT get printed out as the statement in the main
+ program did. 
(more of this other guys code)

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should I expect it to print is STDOUT? The print statements I put in the .pl file are printed to STDOUT but anything inside the package does not get printed

In reply to Re^2: print statements in perl pakages seem to be masked from STDOUT by holandes777
in thread print statements in perl pakages seem to be masked from STDOUT by holandes777

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