A convenient way to debug your code

sotona has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks,

I wonder is there any Perl debugger which allows you to attach to an exact process which runs a Perl script in order to debug one?

Also I wasn't able to find in any debugger I tried to use such a valuable feature like 'set next statement', which allows you to jump to any line in order to change, for instance, something before current statement to make it work properly.

Does anyone have any ideas?
Thank you in advance.

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Re: A convenient way to debug your code (enbugger) by tye (Sage) on Oct 21, 2014 at 13:07 UTC
Enbugger. - tye	[reply]
Re: A convenient way to debug your code by QM (Parson) on Oct 21, 2014 at 12:00 UTC
You might be interested in How to attach a perl debugger to a running perl, which, sadly, only reinforces Anonymous Monk's reply. -QM -- Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of	[reply]
Re: A convenient way to debug your code by Anonymous Monk on Oct 21, 2014 at 09:04 UTC
I wonder is there any Perl debugger which allows you to attach to an exact process which runs a Perl script in order to debug one? only if that process was started with a debugger already attached (perl -d ... ) ... you cannot attach a debugger after the program is started without a debugger	[reply]
Re: A convenient way to debug your code by zentara (Cardinal) on Oct 21, 2014 at 13:11 UTC
If you want convenient, try Devel::ptkdb. It a Tk gui frontend to the perl builtin debugger. It makes things alot easier. See google ptkdb tutorials I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply]
Re: A convenient way to debug your code by GotToBTru (Prior) on Oct 21, 2014 at 16:06 UTC
You cannot modify the code while in the debugger. You can certainly view and change the values of any variables. And there is no debugger command to skip lines or re-execute lines. See debugger reference manual. 1 Peter 4:10	[reply]
Re^2: A convenient way to debug your code (change code) by tye (Sage) on Oct 21, 2014 at 17:16 UTC
But you can augment the code by adding actions (see "h a" and "h A" when in the debugger). You can also (mostly) replace subroutines. - tye	[reply]