Getting stack traces in Perl?

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Timmy picture Timmy · Mar 3, 2010 · Viewed 18.5k times · Source

How do I get stack traces in Perl?

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daotoad picture daotoad · Mar 3, 2010

For debugging needs, I like Carp::Always.

perl -MCarp::Always my_script.pl

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