Brian,
I think you might have to be in a subroutine for it to do it's magic.
>From the PadWalker docs:
inspect (and even change!) lexical variables in any subroutine which called you
..........
Ciao
Richard Foley
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perldebugpr/
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Desany, Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Montag, 20. September 2004 22:04
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: y command
>
>
>Hi guys,
>I'm using perl 5.8.5, with perl5db.pl version 1.27, and PadWalker
>version 0.1.
>
>My understanding is that with the PadWalker module installed, the 'y'
>command in the debugger is supposed to show you the lexical
>variables in
>some scope (say, the current scope).
>
>It doesn't seem like it's quite working for me:
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] scripts]$ perl -d ./template_metrics.pl
>
>Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.27
>Editor support available.
>
>Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help.
>
>main::(./template_metrics.pl:22): my $TEMPLATE_SUMMARY_HTML =
>"template_summary.html";
> DB<1> n
>main::(./template_metrics.pl:23): my $TEMPLATE_METRIC_HTML =
>"template_metrics.html";
> DB<1> n
>main::(./template_metrics.pl:24): my $METRICS_SPREADSHEET =
>"metric_summary.xls";
> DB<1> n
>main::(./template_metrics.pl:25): my $BACKGROUND_FILE =
>"analysisMetrics.txt";
> DB<1> y
>$METRICS_SPREADSHEET = undef
>$TEMPLATE_METRIC_HTML = undef
>$TEMPLATE_SUMMARY_HTML = 3
>
>
>Do you have any suggestions as to what might be wrong or better yet how
>to fix it?
>
>Thanks,
>-Brian.
>
>
>
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