I normally ask questions about debugging because it seems to be an area of discontent for some Win32 users. Perhaps it is an aversion to the command line? You start a debugging session like so:

perl -d scream.pl
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And you wind up in a strange screen with line numbers and package information and what-not on the left hand side. Type the letter l ("L" and not the number one) to see the current line:

  DB<1> l
5==>    my $text = "my text [and maybe|and here's] more text [the end|
+stop]";
6:      my @arr  = parseit($text);
7:      print "$_\n" for @arr;
8
9       sub parseit {
...
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And use b to set a breakpoint. The small letter r will run you to that breakpoint:

  DB<1> b 7
  DB<2> r
main::(scream.pl:7):    print "$_\n" for @arr;
  DB<2>
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Now, to look at variables you can print them out, using p:

  DB<2> p @arr
my text and maybe more text the endmy text and maybe more text stopmy 
+text and h
ere's more text the endmy text and here's more text stop
  DB<3>
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Or, much better, you can examine them using x:

  DB<3> x @arr
0  'my text and maybe more text the end'
1  'my text and maybe more text stop'
2  'my text and here\'s more text the end'
3  'my text and here\'s more text stop'
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When you are done you can use the single letter q to get out of the debugging session. There is more to it, but that is the basics. Perldoc perldebug tells you all this and so much more. Give it a whirl.

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