Hello all. I am trying to get the debugger to print out variable values based on pattern and fail miseraly. See sample code below:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $m=0; my $popop=1; $popop=2; __END__

I run the debugger, do b 5, and can't find the vraiable $popop. See code below:

perl -d ./converCshelltsetenvToSkill.pl Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.28 Editor support available. Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help. main::(./converCshelltsetenvToSkill.pl:3): 3: my $m=0; DB<1> b 5 DB<2> c main::(./converCshelltsetenvToSkill.pl:5): 5: $popop=2; 6: __END__ DB<2> X *popo* DB<3>

What am I doing wrong here?


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