Hi,

I am debugging my perl code using -d option. I Set a breakpoint at the first line of my named subroutine.
Since that subroutine is called so many times, I want to set the break pointin that subroutine with some
condition so that I can avoid some iterations.


Below is the code part of the subroutine:


Engine::Execute
{
       :
  foreach (@commands)
  {
    $cmd = $_;
    if($cmd =~ /INITIAL/i)
    {
      unless (fork)
      {
        eval $cmd;
        if ($@)
        { 
           print "When executing: $cmd\nFollowing error occured: $@\n"
+; 
        }
        exit;
      }
    }
    else
    {
      eval $cmd;
      if ($@)
      { 
         print "When executing: $cmd\nFollowing error occured: $@\n"; 
      }
    }
  }
}

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I tried to set as b Engine::_Execute /INITIAL/i but my script runs without wait.
Please let me know how to set the break point so that execution will continue until the line
if($cmd =~ /INITIAL/i) hits.

In reply to Setting break point for particular condition in the subroutine by srlbharu

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