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Re: Question on Perl

From:
Jenda Krynicky
Date:
August 27, 2008 09:32
Subject:
Re: Question on Perl
From: leejinhoo@gmail.com
> I am learning how to use Perl. When I was first time using VBA, I
> could use "F8" to track how all the variables change each by each and
> step by step so that I can understand how the whole coding flows. Is
> there any method to do so (or similar) in Perl? Many thanks!

There is a builtin debuger, but it's a wee bit scary (even to me, 
after more than ten years of Perl). I think you'll have more luck 
with Devel::ptkdb 
(http://search.cpan.org/search?query=ptkdb&mode=all)

Plus some of the IDEs like Komodo contain a debuger. I myself don't 
like IDEs so I can't comment on those.

Jenda
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