Not only had I never heard of AutoDia, I had never heard of gnome's Dia - Thanks to both of you!

It took only a little work to install the perl mods necessary, so I encourage anyone interested in visual representations of perl to give this a shot. I ran it against some projects I know well in addtion to some that I am working on - very helpful in both cases.

Sometimes we just need to get another perspective ;-)

Thanks guys!

    If your boss demands a UML diagram describing the program, you can
+ give
    him this:

        print sightly( { Shape       => 'uml',
                         SourceFile  => 'helloworld.pl',
                         Regex       => 1 } );

    If it is a Windows program, you can indicate that too, by combinin
+g
    shapes:

        print sightly( { Shape       => 'uml,window',
                         Gap         => 1,
                         SourceFile  => 'helloworld.pl',
                         Regex       => 1 } );

    producing this improved visual representation:

                    ''=~('('.'?'.'{'.('`'|'%').('['^'-').(
                    (                                    (
                    (                                    (
                    (                                    (
                    (                                    (
                    (                                    (
                    '`'))))))))))|'!').('`'|',').'"'.('['^
                                      (
                                     ( (
...
[download]

Best regards,
perl -le "s==*F=e=>y~\*martinF~stronat~=>s~[^\w]~~g=>chop,print"

B::XRef will give you a basic structural outline. Data::Dumper will let you look into the objects. Devel::Symdump may also assist. A search of CPAN may prove worthwhile in the B:: and Devel:: catagories.

cheers

tachyon

s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print

Try SuperSearch with UML in both the body and the title for yourself and be amazed at what is hidden in the monastery vaults.