Thanks so much for your reply! Yeah I have never used Perl in Windows (previously in a unix VM) or the Expect package. I will keep looking out online and see if I find anything - otherwise it might just be trial and error.

My previous position I was actually doing test case development in Perl and this time around I am maintaining some already existing scripts so it will just be a bit of an adjustment getting to the point I'd like to be with a debugger and being able to execute the script so I can see output at each step of the code.

I appreciate the timely response!

I suppose you already tried a normal debugger run on the console and it fails because expect blocks STDIN and STDOUT.

Ptkdb is your best try then, all IDE use the same approach to communicate to the debugger via sockets.

If Ptkdb fails, all will fail.

Cheers Rolf
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