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SG Edwards

2006-01-19, 6:58 pm

Dear all,

I have started using the perl -d dubugger option to step through my
programs but it seems pretty crude and not too user friendly. Can
anyone reccommend a good freeware graphical debugger? I am writing
fairly simple text manipulation scripts.

Thanks,

Stephen Edwards

Paul Lalli

2006-01-19, 6:58 pm

SG Edwards wrote:
> I have started using the perl -d dubugger option to step through my
> programs but it seems pretty crude and not too user friendly. Can
> anyone reccommend a good freeware graphical debugger? I am writing
> fairly simple text manipulation scripts.


http://search.cpan.org/dist/Devel-ptkdb/ptkdb.pm

ptkdb. All written in Perl/Tk, free, *very* nice.

Paul Lalli

Chas Owens

2006-01-19, 6:58 pm

On 1/19/06, SG Edwards <s0460205@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have started using the perl -d dubugger option to step through my
> programs but it seems pretty crude and not too user friendly. Can
> anyone reccommend a good freeware graphical debugger? I am writing
> fairly simple text manipulation scripts.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen Edwards


That depends on your environment. I like ddd on machines that run an
X Server. I don't have much experience debugging on windows, but I
know the Komodo editor from Activestate is pretty good (but
expensive).
Zentara

2006-01-20, 6:59 pm

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:48:33 +0000, s0460205@sms.ed.ac.uk (SG Edwards)
wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>I have started using the perl -d dubugger option to step through my
>programs but it seems pretty crude and not too user friendly. Can
>anyone reccommend a good freeware graphical debugger? I am writing
>fairly simple text manipulation scripts.


Use ptkdb, the Tk front end to Perl debug. It works great.

Its module name is Devel-ptkdb.

You can google for it, and also find many tutorials for how to use it.



--
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http://zentara.net/japh.html
Bernard Kenik

2006-01-20, 9:55 pm

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On 1/19/06, SG Edwards <s0460205@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have started using the perl -d dubugger option to step through my
> programs but it seems pretty crude and not too user friendly. Can
> anyone reccommend a good freeware graphical debugger? I am writing
> fairly simple text manipulation scripts.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen Edwards


That depends on your environment. I like ddd on machines that run an
X Server. I don't have much experience debugging on windows, but I
know the Komodo editor from Activestate is pretty good (but
expensive).

I use Open Perl IDE Pretty good ide and debugger

www.sourceforge.net/projects/open-perl-ide
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