Re: How to track variable usage in a script?

Were I in your position, I would build my self a little sub-routine, let us say "debug", and place calls to it at various places in the code. The arguments to debug are the all variables in the routine.

sub debug {
    my @vars = @_;
    my $i;
    foreach (@vars) {
       print("Var $i = $_\n");
    }
    print("\n");
    return(1);
}
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(Note: Coded but not tested.)

My calls look like debug("Location", $arg1, $arg2, ....) for however many args you want; I just cut and paste the routine all over the place. (This is as close as I can come to a PL/1 "Put Skip Data".)

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Re: How to track variable usage in a script? by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Mar 22, 2004 at 16:56 UTC
Were I in your position, I would build my self a little sub-routine, let us say "debug", and place calls to it at various places in the code. Considering that 'print' with a bunch of variables was dismissed as being too much work, how is your 'debug' function going to save work? At least call it 'd', so it saves 4 keystrokes per call.... Abigail	[reply]
Re: Re: How to track variable usage in a script? by Scarborough (Hermit) on Mar 22, 2004 at 16:58 UTC
Thanks I was here about 3 hours ago and hoped there was a system hash which stored all the user variables which I could interrogate but will go down this line now. Thank you for the encouragement.	[reply]