I am currently in the process of moving from EPIC and Eclipse to writing my Perl programmes with a straightforward text editor and then debugging with the native debugger. For me the two most useful features of EPIC were the ability to set a breakpoint visually by clicking in the left margin and also being able to specify the command-line arguments for a script.

So far as setting breakpoints goes I have learned it is possible to do effectively the same thing in a text editor by adding $DB::single = 1; at the position in the source where you want the debugger to halt. However I have not yet found a way of pre-specifying the command-line arguments for a script within the source code. Is this possible? I always use GetOpt::Long to unpack and access any passed arguments. Therefore one idea that strikes me is to manually set the contents of $ARGV[n] at the top of the source before any other code is run. Would this approach work?

Any suggestions or insight in this matter would be much apreciated!

"Aure Entuluva!" - Hurin Thalion at the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.

In reply to Embedding command-line arguments within source code by morelenmir

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