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Um the technical term for this is "hell if I know". If you are irritated by it now, imagine how irritating it gets when the file you are parsing is HUGE and you get the whole thing for each an every attempt... (I modified the PR::D source to truncate the output because of this.) It takes some time to
not necessary, just use $::RD_TRACE = 120; # since P::RD version 1.20
Defining $::RD_TRACE causes the parser generator and the parser to report their progress to STDERR in excruciating detail (although, without hints unless $::RD_HINT is separately defined). This detail can be moderated in only one respect: if $::RD_TRACE has an integer value (N) greater than 1, only the N characters of the "current parsing context" (that is, where in the input string we are at any point in the parse) is reported at any time.
Best Regards Charly -- Karl Gaissmaier KIZ/Infrastructure, University of Ulm, Germany Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Service Group Network