in reply to returning word from a file position

perl -d [script name]

will take you into the debugger, where you can run your script line by line. man perldebug will show you how to use the debugger.

dave hj~

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Re: and for your future reference...
by Kentdn (Novice) on Jan 23, 2002 at 05:11 UTC
    Thanks for the help, really apprecaited!!!!