what is this list about ?

While I guess there are not many people subscribed to the list yet I'll try to give shot and launch some ideas to discuss. Your comments are welcome ! Once we figure out how to change the web site, we'll even write these things there :-) - How can I learn to use the debugger ? - How to setup the

Existing books on debugging ?

There was a recent thread about testing books on the perl-qa list. http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=perl-qa (which is not in the archive for some reason but you can see it in the news feed) http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2073 I'd be glad to hear your opinion about similar books on

Re: Existing books on debugging ?

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Peter Scott wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adrian Howard) writes: > >On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 08:59 am, Gabor Szabo wrote: > > > >I'd say that there is more to debugging than using a debugger. >

[DEBUGGER] break point in "required" code

Hi, I have a script that "requires" a module. How can I set a break point in the code which is in the "required" module *before* it is loaded into memory ? Gabor

RE: [DEBUGGER] break point in "required" code

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Use the 'onload breakpoint' facility: > > b load module > > Then restart the debugger: > > R > Well, I tried perl -d myscript.pl > b load DBD::Sprite Will stop on load of `DBD::Sprite DBD::Sprite.pm'. > b load DBD/Sprite Will stop on l

[debugger] break on watch ?

I am looking in either the built in debugger or ptkdb. Is there a way to set a 'floating' break point that will stop the code execution when the value of a variable changes ? Or when the value of a variable receives a certain value ? Better yet when a hash changes ? The point is that I don't kn

Devel-ptkdb 1.1087 Released

-- Forwarded message -- Date: 23 Nov 2003 16:24:00 -0500 From: Andrew E. Page Subject: Devel-ptkdb 1.1087 Released New Features: Hex Dump option of scalar variables in the "Expresion Eval Window". This will dump the contents of scalar variable in Hex Format. This is occasio

[debugger] finding deep recursin

Any idea how can I use the debugger to find the cause of a deep recursion in my code ? Gabor

Re: [debugger] finding deep recursin

Thanks for the ideas. Actually what I did was running script and then turning on tracing in the debugger. Then I looked at the result to find out where exactly was the recursion called. thanks Gabor

Re: begginer question

Hi Mike, you can either try to run the scripts from the command line perl -d myscript.pl or you try using another debugger: For example install Tk and the Devel::ptkdb module. Then read the CGI section of perldoc Devel::ptkdbd Gabor

Re: "Watching" all variables in a specific namespace?

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, Yuval Yaari wrote: > And more importantly, how can I watch array changes, hash changes, etc? Not the perfect solution but for a specific simple array or simple hash I'd put a watch on some expression that represents the whole array or hash: w join ":",@a w join ":",%h for

Re: website update: B::Debugger

Added, with some self promotion :-) Gabor On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Richard Foley wrote: > Hi Reini, > > Good idea. > > I'm forwarding this to Gabor, so he can update the site directly. > > Cheers. > > -- > Richard Foley > Ciao - shorter than aufwiedersehen > > http://www.rfi.net/ > > On