inline. Tom Arnall
On Thursday 22 June 2006 06:35 pm, Tom Phoenix wrote: > On 6/22/06, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > invoking a perl script with '#!/usr/perl -wd' in its first line and > > with './myscript >t' on the command line, > > What are you trying to do? i want to enable the user to select either a file or STDOUT for output, the way one uses e.g. 'cat'. but, as you say, this confuses the debugger. i can't see any alternative, except to get the file name via ARGV and use 'select' to enable output to STDOUT when, say, the user fails to supply a file name on the command line. other ideas welcomed. thanks btw for the help you give to the Perl community. The output redirection is confusing to the > debugger. If you're trying to make a transcript of your debugger > session, there's probably a better way to do that. If you're trying > debug a program and send its default output to a file, you can do that > from within the program, for example in a BEGIN block: > > open DEBUG_OUT, ">./t" or die "Can't open file 't' for output: $!"; > select DEBUG_OUT; # now the default for print and printf > > Alternatively, you should even be able to do the same thing from > within the debugger, by typing those two lines into the debugger as > the first two commands before the rest of your program starts running. > > Does that work for you? Good luck with it! > > --Tom Phoenix > Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
