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

How can I apply regular expressions to the debugging command V so that I can, for instance, print out the values of all the variables from the script I'm debugging, but none of the environmental variables?
Thanks,
Ntav
N.A.P.H.
NOT another perl hacker

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Re: debugging commands
by kschwab (Vicar) on Sep 09, 2001 at 02:24 UTC
    The syntax is V [pkg [vars]]. You can use regex patterns for the vars if you provide either a leading ~ or ! ( for negation).

    Some examples: 

    V main !\w   ( print vars in main that have a non-word
               character in them)
V main ~_ ( print vars in main with an underscore in them)

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      thanks, it was the regex syntax being slightly different from =~ m// which threw me.
      Ntav
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