What Perl Source File do I Edit?

perl.j has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: What Perl Source File do I Edit? by GrandFather (Saint) on Oct 30, 2011 at 23:58 UTC
Not actually an answer to your question, but somewhat related: have your read perlguts, perlhack and perlrepository? True laziness is hard work	[reply]
Re: What Perl Source File do I Edit? by ww (Archbishop) on Oct 31, 2011 at 01:06 UTC
Sorry, perl.j, because in this and some of your other posts, I see (well, 'infer') an effort to learn "more" (for some large value of "more") about Perl, but - - for posting yet another question that could be answered by a bit of your own research (...and a whale of a lot of study). And perhaps it didn't occur to you, but while an answer to your first question is not all that verbose, a decent answer to the second would occupy a fair-sized library. Also important: you'd probably learn a lot more (including some gotchas, exceptions, tangential facts, etc) by doing your own research and study. So, extending the reply above, you will profit from reading and learning from `perldoc perltoc` (which, with any reasonable install, should exist on your local machine).	[reply] [d/l]
Re: What Perl Source File do I Edit? by JavaFan (Canon) on Oct 31, 2011 at 09:41 UTC
I find `cat` an excellent tool to find out what's in each file.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: What Perl Source File do I Edit? by anneli (Pilgrim) on Oct 31, 2011 at 10:50 UTC
True; though when it comes to editing them, nothing beats `ed`!	[reply] [d/l]
Re: What Perl Source File do I Edit? by zentara (Cardinal) on Oct 31, 2011 at 11:10 UTC
If you want to see whats in a module used in your script, use perldoc -m modulename, for example: perldoc -m CGI If you want to know where it's located, its perldoc -l CGI I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply]
Re^2: What Perl Source File do I Edit? by Anonymous Monk on Nov 02, 2011 at 00:08 UTC
Unfortunately, that only works if the .pm file contains pod, and its not in a .pod file :) pm_which pmwhich	[reply]
Re: What Perl Source File do I Edit? by Anonymous Monk on Oct 31, 2011 at 02:41 UTC
Who hired you to ask this question, and how much are you getting paid?	[reply]