Thanks for your reply. I`m still not having any luck with it Perl IDE. I`m using Vista 64-bit and wondering if that has anything to do with it. My code executes fine, I just can`t use breakpoints to debug.
After making the changes, when I use a breakpoint, perlide now does nothing when I run the script. In fact I can`t even close PerlIDE after I have run a script with a breakpoint I have downloaded Komodo IDE as a trial and will see if that at least works. If not, something may be wrong with my environment setup.