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

Hello, is there a way to see all the variables which I have created in the script at any point using the debugger? The syntax for a single variable is given as x varname. For multiple variables, the syntax is X package name , but what if my script does not have any package name? As some one suggested I even tried using main, but it does not help. Also many of the times I am getting default system variables like $$, $\ etc..

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Re: Seeing all the variables in debug mode
by swampyankee (Parson) on Jun 12, 2007 at 03:40 UTC

    Try V or X (quoted from perldebug): 

    V [pkg [vars]]

    Display all (or some) variables in package (defaulting to main) us
+ing a data pretty-printer (hashes show their keys and values so you s
+ee what's what, control characters are made printable, etc.). Make su
+re you don't put the type specifier (like $) there, just the symbol n
+ames, like this:

        V DB filename line

    Use ~pattern and !pattern for positive and negative regexes.

    This is similar to calling the x command on each applicable var.
X [vars]

    Same as V currentpackage [vars].

    [download]

    Note that I rarely use either.

    You could also try the Perl debugger using a Tk GUI.

    emc

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      Thanks for the reply. But I am not out of my problem. When I do this X ~$(.*) I get only some variables. i.e variables in the current package. Sorry, I dont know about jobs, I am a college student.
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