Problems seeing vars using debugger

chorg has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello all,

I am trying to use the debugger in perl (perl5db.pl). I have tried to use x varname but that only gives me 0 and the name of the variable. I have tried

V varname

and X varname but that gives me a ton of stuff, when I just want to see varname's value. I should add that varname is an array or hash, so I want to see the values pretty printed. The docs say that this can be done, but how?
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Re: Problems seeing vars using debugger by ChOas (Curate) on Nov 23, 2000 at 18:10 UTC
Tried these ?: x $Varname x @Varname x %Varname Perl would like to know which one you mean, (The scalar varname, the list, or the hash) GreetZ!, ChOas	[reply]
Re: Re: Problems seeing vars using debugger by chorg (Monk) on Nov 23, 2000 at 19:23 UTC
Wicked! Thanks a lot - that works for x. Yeehaa! How about X and V? I really would like to be able to inspect object properties and more complex data structures _______________________________________________ "Intelligence is a tool used achieve goals, however goals are not always chosen wisely..."	[reply]