[Chicago-talk] Finding out where a sub is called from

[David Young]

I use:  

my $thisSUB = (caller(0))[3];

ydy

>>> shawn.c.carroll at gmail.com 02/16/09 07:53AM >>>
http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/caller.html 

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Richard Reina
<richard at rushlogistics.com> wrote:
> Is there a type of variable that can tell me where a subroutine was called from?
>
> For example if I do:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> # caller.pl
> require "./script.pl";
> my $result = do_it();
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> # script.pl
>
> sub do_it {
>
> # who called for me?
>
> }
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