in reply to Mason - debug output?
You can put it anywhere you like and output it to the browser as long as you have a print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; before it. It won't look pretty because there'll probably be another one further down the page, but it'll work.
Nobody says perl looks like line-noise any more
kids today don't know what line-noise IS ...
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