Hi Ronalds, thanks for the quick answer. Is there any workaround? I would simply love to have the ability to debug regular expressions interactively.
I tried: DB<10> ;{$x="blah"; $x =~ /(a)/; print $1} but this also doesn't seem to work. 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