Fellow Monks,

A huge bunch of old perl scripts has just arrived on my PC. My Boss wants me to analyse them. Obviously some will be out of date, and some are just not used or called anymore. I don't suppose there is a perl script which can trace through the flow of scripts, reporting on which subroutines are called or not? some kind of user-friendly perl script parser as such.... it would certainly help to save me hours (even days) of tracing through this stuff by hand, and figuring out what's going on.
P.S. no documentation came with this stuff, plus very few worthwhile comments.
P.P.S. the guy who originally did this stuff has left the company, for some time now

Thanks in advance
Jonathan.

In reply to parsing a load of perl scripts by Anonymous Monk

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