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For programmers the debugging is very important to develop his programs correctly, this post is a simple introduction in the use of perl debugger. The perl debugger is integrated in the perl interpreter, to run perl in the debug mode launch it with the switch -d

# perl -d dbex.pl

output:

the help:

at the debugger prompt you can type the command for the debugger.

To make easy debugging in perl is usefull the package ptkdb; it is a visual debugger based on PerlTk libraries and the package is very simple to install from CPAN. Run it from the perl script with the switch -d:ptkdb

# perl -d:ptkdb dbex.pl