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chicago.pm: Debugging Perl

posted by ziggy on 2003.11.11 11:26   

inkdroid writes "At the next chicago.pm meeting on Dec 9th @ 7PM Steven Lembark will go over the basics of using the Perl debugger to set breakpoints and interactively examine variables and structures at runtime. He will also cover using $DB::single, $DB::trace (and why to remove them before releasing a module :-). For those who don't enjoy gdb, Steven will also describe how to get/install/use the Perl Tk Debugger (-d:ptkdb). Please join us in our new digs courtesy of WDI. [directions]"

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• $DB::single, $DB::trace (Score:1)

  by doom (4683)

  What are "$DB::single, $DB::trace"? I don't see them up on CPAN.
  • Re:$DB::single, $DB::trace (Score:1)

    by doom (4683)

    Ah, I see they're flags in the now standard DB module:

    $DB::single
    Single-step flag. Will be true if the API will stop at the next statement.
    
    
    $DB::trace
    This flag is set to true if the API is tracing through subroutine calls.