I am mantaining a perl program for a client that I did not write. It is a fairly complex program but the jist of it is that is listens on a socket and responds with an appropriate message. The program is failing with a message like: "Can't call method "format" without a package or object reference at (eval 71832) line 1." The problem is that the program is failing in their production environment and I have no idea where is the program. The real question: Is my only choice for debugging the program is to bring it up in the debugger with "perl -d" or is there some other way of debugging a perl program. I cannot put print statements in because the program is to large and I don't yet know where it is failing. Any help would be appreciated

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