On Tuesday 09 November 2004 11:33, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 11:40:30AM -0600, Joseph Paish wrote: > > BTW, i think i may have found out what is giving me the strange line > > numbers in the debugger under emacs. it seems that when i enter "p $." > > at the debugger prompt, it displays whatever line number the debugger > > just printed out. for example, if i have 17 debugger prompts before i > > issue the "p $." command, it will display 17 instead of the line number > > of the file i am reading at the time (which should be 1 if i just started > > reading the file). > > > > ok, now this is getting strange. i inserted some print statements in my > > large script, and they showed that in fact, i had been entering the first > > if() structure all along. the debugger was showing me bypassing it and > > going straight to the second one. maybe based on the bogus $. values > > that the debugger thought were accurate? (see previous paragraph) > > > > anyway, except for the debugger not working properly under emacs, i guess > > there is no problem with the "if ($. == 1) structure . unfortunately, i > > have grown to depend on the debugger to help me spot logic errors in my > > code. i guess i am going to have to go back to simple print statements > > or run it from the commandline where i *just* found out that it gives me > > the correct output. > > You don't tell us which version of perl you are running, which is always > helpful in situations such as this, but my guess is that it is ancient. > > There was a bug in perl5.6.0 and earlier versions of perl which would > cause this behaviour. The bug was fixed by this patch, over four years > ago: http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?patch=6023 > > If I am correct, and you are running 5.6.0 or earlier, I suggest you > upgrade in order to fix this problem and many others you might > encounter. The latest maintenance release is 5.8.5 - I recommend it.
first of all, thanks to all the people that have helped me with my $. problem, both on and off this mailing list. i guess i could have made things a lot simpler if i had mentioned the version number to start with. i was (and still am) running 5.6.0, and have just downloaded 5.8.5. i will probably be starting another thread (or asking the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup) about things to watch out for when installing another version on top of an existing one. thanks again joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
