in reply to Perl 5.8.0 debugger annoyances

Well SIGSEGV,

That's quite a story. Although i am not familiar with the ins and outs of HP-UX i assume just typing
x @a
works. Now did you try the normal approach like this:
x @a |more
does that work?

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Re: Re: Perl 5.8.0 debugger annoyances
by SIGSEGV (Sexton) on Dec 10, 2002 at 12:18 UTC

    Hi Jaap,

    first of all I should apologize for not having read the bottom of this page where it explicitly says not to use <pre> tags but to use the <code> tag instead for its enhanced feature set and mainly for braking lines.

    I also have to thank tye for reediting my post, and making it thus more readable. I mistook this kind intervention for some moderation by the site maintainers.
    Sorry, for causing you invonvenience but this site has such a bewildering, barockesque adornment just like Perl's idiomatic syntax which makes it a bit difficult for the newbie (viz. TIMTOWDI)

    Now back to the subject.
    I forgot to mention that not only the piping mechanism is broken but the same goes for shell escapes from the debugger's prompt.
    In my pre-5.8.0 Perls I could do this with the double bang.

    e.g.

    DB<1> !!pwd