You might also want to see whether the message was actually printed to STDOUT or STDERR. It might be a message printed to STDERR by some program you run using `backticks`. Redirect the STDOUT and STDERR of the script to two different files and see in which does it end up.

perl the_script.pl > STDOUT.log 2> STDERR.log

And if the number changes whenever the $web_link changes, then it's probably printed by something that uses that parameter. It might for example be the size of the document on that address and be printed by the `rcp ...`.

Jenda
Enoch was right!
Enjoy the last years of Rome.

In reply to Re: getting some random number for subroutine call in perl by Jenda
in thread getting some random number for subroutine call in perl by siddheshsawant

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