Hello gurus,

I have three files, let's call them "main", "lib1" and "lib2".

As you may imagine, the "lib" files contain functions called by "main".

Whilst I can easily "grep" out the names of the functions from the "lib" files, what I would *really* like to be able to do would be to highlight their usage in the main file. Either by prefixing the lines in the main file with some sort of flag, or by printing out a report the lines numbers where they are used in main.... or both

Unfortunately I'm at a loss as to where to start, and if I'm being honest I wouldn't even know what sort of search terms to use on Google ... ;-)

So it is therefore with much intrepidation that I put myself forward to the lions at Perlmonks.....

Thanking you most kindly in advance for your most valuable contributions.

In reply to Using perl for refactoring by OceanPerl

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