in reply to finding module name?
The reason to know "where you are", often comes about when your program "dies". Since you said that you are new at Perl, you should be aware of this fine point about "die".
If you do not put a '\n' on the die, you get executing name and line number. If you put the '\n', you just get what you typed in between the double quotes.open(IN, "foo") || die "can't open foo"; #versus# open(IN, "foo") || die "can't open foo\n";
With Perl, you can learn amazing things about what is going on. For example:
I'm just guessing that the most important info that you need is "who called me?" when some sub in a package has a problem.sub whoami { (caller(1))[3] }; #name of the sub that called this sub sub whowasi { (caller(2))[3] }; #name of the parent of that sub
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