On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:41:04PM -0600, Smith, Laura J wrote:
> I'm not sure how to ask this question since I am so new to this....but here
> goes. I am just learning Perl and my co-worker gave me a Perl program to go
> over and see how it looks. I was wondering if there is any way to have the
> program print out line by line what it is doing so I could see exactly what
> the program is doing as it is going through. Kind of like verbose mode in
> shell scripting.
If you're running the program interactively, you can use the perl debugger,
and turn on trace mode.
perl -d foo.pl
n::(foo.pl:4): my $i = 0;
DB<1> t
Trace = on
DB<1> r ## runs foo.pl until completion
Of course, this will generate a lot of output that isn't easily paged
using more or less...
HTH,
Z.
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