Log::TraceMessages, version 1.4 This module is a better way of putting 'hello there' trace messages in your code. It lets you turn tracing on and off without commenting out trace statements, and provides other useful things like HTML-ified trace messages for CGI scripts and an easy way to trace out data structures using Data::Dumper. From the pod documentation: use Log::TraceMessages qw(t d); $Log::TraceMessages::On = 1; t 'got to here'; t 'value of $a is ' . d($a); { local $Log::TraceMessages::On = 0; t 'this message will not be printed'; } $Log::TraceMessages::Logfile = 'log.out'; t 'this message will go to the file log.out'; $Log::TraceMessages::Logfile = undef; t 'and this message is on stderr as usual'; # For a CGI program producing HTML $Log::TraceMessages::CGI = 1; # Or to turn on trace if there's a command-line argument '--trace' Log::TraceMessages::check_argv(); This is free software and you may distribute it under the same terms as perl itself. There is no warranty. Since version 1.3 the test suite has been fixed to work on Windows. -- Ed Avis, ed@membled.com, 2003-12-05