There's the p command that simply prints your variable as print would do. Or x that displays the content of the variable, nested structures included. You can find those commands by typing h in the console. And you can learn more about the debugger in the corresponding documentation and tutorial.

Edit: Thanks to haukex and johngg for pointing out that I gave two links to perldebug instead of one to perldebtut :).

Thanks, that's exactly what I needed. Cheers.

Hi dovah,

print is pretty much the simplest way to print a variable*. It is printed to the currently selected output handle.

What is your goal? Do you want the output to look a certain way, or the code to look or act a certain way?

There are modules to output the contents of complex variables / data structures, for example Data::Dump, as follows. Note the pp function by itself prints to STDERR instead of STDOUT, if you want the latter, you have to use print pp ....

use Data::Dump 'pp';
my $age = 25;
pp $age;
pp { foo => "bar" };
__END__
25
{ foo => "bar" }
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There's also the core module Data::Dumper, which provides similar functionality.

* Update: Oh, oops, I see, you're asking about the debugger. Then Eily's response is more on point.

Hope this helps,
-- Hauke D