in reply to perl program status

Might not be exactly what your looking for, but I find the best way to find a programs "status", is to print out some of the variables. It really lets you see whats going on.

my $name = 'Ben Kittrell'; $name=~s/^(.+)\s(.).+$/\L$1$2/g; my $nick = 'tha' . $name . 'sta';