As for the Perl debugger, perl -d <scriptname> should get you started. It's quite useful, I've gotten my non-Perl savvy co-workers into the habit of running it whenever they set up one of our Perl scripts. I just got into the habit of using vi because on one system, that was the only editor I had available, so I learned it (the other telling point was when the fstab on my Linux box got messed up and I had to reboot into standalone mode and edit the thing by hand and at that point, vi is all you've got :-). I played a bit with BBEdit and found that if you do a "Save As" and select "Simple Text" and "ASCII" under the options (or advanced options), the file will get saved the way you want it and run just right (discovered that after I posted the script to clean up the CR/LFs. Anyhow, good luck.

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Comments trouble by nimdokk
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