Re^2: @INC order not followed

Ahh yes that does make sense, EXCEPT why did the f yield a 2-line file? f is supposed to match on filenames I thought- not grep into files? Why didnt it show me ALL of Text::CSV.pm ?

I learned something here that f doesn't find the first match in @INC order- it finds a random match on eval of the regex? Seems odd NOT to yield match 1 in @INC since that's how Perl will run the files so it would make sense to go to THAT file I would think. Also in the past it went to MY CSV which I guess was just luck.

TYVM!

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Re^3: @INC order not followed by Fletch (Bishop) on Oct 19, 2022 at 19:50 UTC
Because that's not what matched on when it searched for `qr/CSV/` on the entire list of loaded "file" names. When you (string?) eval something it stubs in a representation of the location of the `eval` call and its showing you just the text that got `eval`'d there. And again `@INC` and its ordering doesn't have anything to do with the order keys returns things for the `%main::` stash ( a hash, but it's a special hash). If you have `%foo = qw( 2 a 22 b 222 c )` then you similarly can't say what `(grep /2/, keys %h)[0]` is going to wind up returning. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: @INC order not followed by pryrt (Abbot) on Oct 19, 2022 at 21:23 UTC
Please note that to list a file after you have chosen it with `f`, you need to use `l` to list one "page" at a time (more on that can be found in the debugger's help interface -- you will want to `h` to get the general overview of possible commands, and `h l` to get more help on `l` specifically; `v` might also be of use). Caveat: I am not a debugger expert. I actually learned this earlier today when I read your post, and then started playing around in the debugger to replicate. But I knew other monks were much better at the debugger than I, and could explain the `f` portion of your difficulty, whereas I couldn't. I waited until I read good explanations of that part, but since no one else explained how to see the contents of the file, I thought I'd now share what I learned, one debugger-newb to another.	[reply] [d/l] [select]