First of all, welcome to the Monastery. Hang around her long enough and you'll learn how to write Perl code the right way. It's helped me.

Two tips: I use Data::Dumper for checking variable values in Web environments, often live sites in emergencies. So, 1) I use:

print "Content-type: html/text\n\n";

[download]

to show the values, but still print the page to the browser. If I really want to stay below the radar, I open up a file on the server and dump the values there.

Nothing revolutionary, but nice to know when starting out with the module.

—Brad
"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot

In reply to Re: Use of Data::Dumper by bradcathey
in thread Use of Data::Dumper by Parimala@123

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