jepri, thanks I found your post very enligtening. I've never seen anyone other than myself program so I'm very interested in hearing how you "debug while you code". I guess I do a little bit of both. Sometimes I just charge on and let the compiler and warnings catch my errors (hopefully), other times I'll write just a couple of lines and execute it. Obviously, it's the times when I rely on the compiler and Perl warnings that I get nailed because they can't catch errors in logic or my misunderstanding of the Perl interpreter works.

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