> Is there any easier way of debugging Perl scripts? Modifying the
> script and putting a few print statements is a bit of a pain..
> espcially when the server is a remote server and slow..
If lag is biting, do your development on a local machine. :]
For debugging CGIs, quite often they'll dump useful information to stderr
that you won't see, it can be helpful to leave a 'tail -f' going on
error_log (if you're running Apache) in the background while you work.
If you're adding lots of output, quite often this will break the cgi even
further when it's run normally, I normally do it to stderr (so it goes to
the log instead of screen or browser):
my $debug = 1; # change to 0 once you're done
printf STDERR "[%s] %s - some useful information\n",
$0, scalar localtime if $debug;
-- adm
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