Hi, I am a new perl learner. I am finding that the most effective way to learn is to look at scripts that others have written. When I open scripts in editors such as geany, there is syntax highlighting that helps me understand the structure of the program somewhat. I would like to take this a bit further. Is there a way I can just pull out certain bits and pieces of the program - say just the blue-coded structure, and not the variables. This would help me visualize the skeleton of the program without distracting elements and would help me build up the basics bit by bit. Another related question is are you aware of some tool that would take the any perl program and enable me to view the program as a flowchart to see how it has been written and learn from it?

In reply to Visualizing the skeleton of a perl code by Anonymous Monk

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