I am having to deal with SES (Someone Else's Sh(tuff)) so I am a bit out of synch. Forgive me if this is a "DOH!" question.

I am dealing with a Perl program that calls a package. The main code is extremely stringy and the package seems contructed well. I started putting print statements in the methods of the package and they were printing on STDOUT (my console). Suddenly they stopped. I tried creating a filehanle and used print to the filehandle a-la: print {$self->{fileout}} "what I want to print\n"; Which also does not seem to work (It is not $!, the output should be voluminous).

I must be missing a basic concept about the interaction between an imported module and STDOUT. So my question is: If I want to have a package print to STDOUT, is there something "special" that needs to be done?

In reply to print statements in perl pakages seem to be masked from STDOUT by holandes777

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