Thanks to this Robert as well :) .... it worked ....
Cheers,
Parag
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Robert Wohlfarth <rbwohlfa...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Parag Kalra <paragka...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> It happens so many times that while debugging I come inside a loop which
>> doesn't contain the issue which I am debugging.
>>
>> And as I am not aware of a method to complete the loop while debugging - I
>> manually enter 'n' to complete each iteration and finish the loop
>> operation.
>>
>> And then again continue debugging outside the loop. This may be very
>> tedious
>> if loop involves an array or a file which is very large in size.
>>
>
> Will the "c" command work for you? "c line" continues until it reaches the
> given line. So if you know the line number after the loop, you can bypass
> the loop. For example...
>
> # perl -d -e 'foreach (1..5) {print "$_\n"; }
> >print "done\n";
> >'
>
> Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.3
>
> Editor support available.
>
> Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help.
>
> main::(-e:1): foreach (1..5) {print "$_\n"; }
> DB<1> n
> main::(-e:1): foreach (1..5) {print "$_\n"; }
> DB<1> n
> 1
> main::(-e:1): foreach (1..5) {print "$_\n"; }
> DB<1> c 2
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> main::(-e:2): print "done\n";
> DB<2>
>
> The "c 2" continues until it reaches line 2 - outside of the loop. HTH
>
> --
> Robert Wohlfarth
>
>
