What are some good Perl debugging methods?

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joe picture joe · Jun 24, 2009 · Viewed 8.7k times · Source

Are there other ways for debugging Perl programs apart from Data::Dumper and perl -d?

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Haim Evgi picture Haim Evgi · Jun 24, 2009

Available tools for debugging

There are several tools available in Perl for debugging and similar tasks.

Built-in command line debugger.

perl -d yourcode.pl

Devel::ptkdb

Perl/Tk based graphical debugger by Andrew E. Page.

Regex Coach

This a free tool running both on Linux and Windows written in Lisp. Source code is not available.

Rx: A Regex Debugger for Perl

The Perl Regex debugger and an article about it written by Mark Jason Dominus.

A GUI for the Perl Debugger

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