Thanks for looking at this, and I finally found a way for perl to use MY copy of SJISTermFilter.pm, and I put print statements in it and discovered it is hanging on these statements:

print "Now in mainline code at line 153\n";
# and tie default filehandles
tie(*STDOUT, "Amazon::DistributionCenter::SJISTermFilter", *STDOUT);
print "Now in mainline code after tie of STDOUT\n";
tie(*STDERR, "Amazon::DistributionCenter::SJISTermFilter", *STDERR);
print "Now in mainline code after tie of STDERR\n";
tie(*STDIN,  "Amazon::DistributionCenter::SJISTermFilter", *STDIN) if 
+($ENV{ENABLE_SJISTERMFILTER_INPUT});
print "Now in mainline code after tie of STDIN\n";
tie(*ARGV,   "Amazon::DistributionCenter::SJISTermFilter", *ARGV)  if 
+($ENV{ENABLE_SJISTERMFILTER_INPUT});
print "Now in mainline code after tie of ARGV\n";

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The print statements are mine, just to see where it was crashing, and I can see it never makes it past the very first tie statement. My question is, what is tie? I've never heard of it.

and another thing. All of my books tell me that a use is kind-of like a C #include, where it just brings code in, but doesn't execute it. Well, I find that to be false. It brings it in AND executes it. Are the books wrong?

In reply to Re^2: USE statement, search method by kmullin
in thread USE statement, search method by kmullin

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