Jeff Abrahamson on 13 Jan 2004 23:31:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] OT Perl IDE/Debugger 

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 05:37:03PM -0500, Alex Birch wrote:
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> Is there a nice debugger for Perl? Something that would let a person 
> look at the different variable values while a program is running?

perl -d

See "perldoc perlrun" for how to know this and "perldoc perldebug" for
more useful info.

If you are an emacs user (and why wouldn't you be?), note that the
perl debugger is understood by emacs' Grand Unified Debugger (M-x perldb).

-- 
 Jeff

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