This section of the FAQ answers questions related to programmer tools and programming support. Have you looked at CPAN (see perlfaq2)? The chances are that someone has already written a module that can solve your problem. Have you read the appropriate manpages? Here's a brief index: Basics perldata, perlvar, perlsyn, perlop, perlsub Execution perlrun, perldebug Functions perlfunc Objects perlref,