On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:29:15PM +0200, Axel Rose wrote:
> Can anybody confirm this:
>
> within the debugger (520r1, 561r1)
> x $1
> p $1
> print $1
> don't show the value of $1 after a match in debugger.
>
> main::(Dev:Pseudo:1): 1;
> DB<1> $x = "blah"
>
> DB<2> $x =~ /([la])/
>
> DB<3> x $1
> 0 undef
> DB<4> p $1
>
> DB<5> if( $x =~ /([la])/ ) { print "matched: $1\n" }
>
> DB<6> x $1
> 0 undef
> DB<7>
>
> After step <5> I can see the successful match in the MacPerl
> window though ...
> Perhaps I'm just to thick in the moment.
>
> Thanks,
> Axel.
>
The special regex variables are always localized to the current block, and
each Perl snippet entered at a debugger prompt is executed in its own
block. Thus, by the time you ask for the value of $1 at the next prompt,
it's already been restored to its previous value.
Ronald
