Description
Book SynopsisA quick and convenient path to mastery of the Perl debugger and its commands. Written by a core member of the Perl debugger development team, it's an ideal quick reference to debugger commands, as well as a detailed tutorial on how to get started. The Perl Debugger Pocket Reference provides complete coverage in a conveniently small package.
Table of ContentsWhat Is the Perl Debugger?; Why Use the Debugger?; Unfamiliar Territory; About This Book; The linecounter.pl Script; Shell Truncated Output; Versions of Perl; Delving Deeper; Conventions; Acknowledgments and Disclaimers; Before You Debug Check Your Syntax; Use strict; Warnings; Diagnostics Taint Mode; A Debugger Tutorial; Starting a Session; A Simple CGI Debugger Session; Debugger Commands; Help and Quitting Examining Data; Listing Code and Searching; Motion Actions, Breakpoints, and Watchpoints; Perl, Pre-Prompt, and Post-Prompt Commands; Shell and Debugger Commands; Setting Options Debugger Variables; $DB::* Variables; Environment Variables Debugging Options; DB and Devel Namespaces; Runtime Sequence DB::DB(); DB::sub (); Devel Namespace (-d); Useful Modules -DDEBUGGING; References; perldoc; Books; URLs Online Articles; History; GUIs-Graphical User Interfaces Debuggers; Text Editors; Quick Reference; Index
