Linus Torvalds : I do not condone single-stepping through code to find the bug ... Without a debugger you have to look at the level above sources. At the meaning of things. You have to understand what the program does. Not just that particular line.

I find myself wanting to retort, but that's not the right spirit. My claim rather is that this fulfills Torvalds' criterion:

                                                                    
$ perl -d 1.debug.11.pl

Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.55
Editor support available.

Enter h or 'h h' for help, or 'man perldebug' for more help.

main::(1.debug.11.pl:12):    my $ts          = "template_stuff";
  DB<1> c                                                             
+          
title is 1.debug.1
path1 is /home/hogan/6.scripts/1.debug.1
abs is /home/hogan/6.scripts/1.debug.1/1.debug.11.pl
debug1::make_initial_captions(template_stuff/debug1.pm:42):
42:      my $iter = $image_path ->iterator;
  DB<1> c                                                             
+          
/home/hogan/6.scripts/1.debug.1/template_stuff/aimages/image3.png
Path::Tiny::CODE(0x55823b1ce7d8)(/usr/share/perl5/Path/Tiny.pm:1179):
1179:            my $next;
  DB<1> c                                                             
+          
/home/hogan/6.scripts/1.debug.1/template_stuff/aimages/image4.png
Path::Tiny::CODE(0x55823b1ce7d8)(/usr/share/perl5/Path/Tiny.pm:1179):
1179:            my $next;
  DB<1> c                                                             
+          
/home/hogan/6.scripts/1.debug.1/template_stuff/aimages/image6.png
Path::Tiny::CODE(0x55823b1ce7d8)(/usr/share/perl5/Path/Tiny.pm:1179):
1179:            my $next;
  DB<1> c                                                             
+          
/home/hogan/6.scripts/1.debug.1/template_stuff/aimages/image1.png
Path::Tiny::CODE(0x55823b1ce7d8)(/usr/share/perl5/Path/Tiny.pm:1179):
1179:            my $next;
  DB<1> c                                                             
+          
/home/hogan/6.scripts/1.debug.1/template_stuff/aimages/image5.png
Path::Tiny::CODE(0x55823b1ce7d8)(/usr/share/perl5/Path/Tiny.pm:1179):
1179:            my $next;
  DB<1> c                                                             
+          
/home/hogan/6.scripts/1.debug.1/template_stuff/aimages/image0.png
Path::Tiny::CODE(0x55823b1ce7d8)(/usr/share/perl5/Path/Tiny.pm:1179):
1179:            my $next;
  DB<1> c                                                             
+          
/home/hogan/6.scripts/1.debug.1/template_stuff/aimages/image2.png
Path::Tiny::CODE(0x55823b1ce7d8)(/usr/share/perl5/Path/Tiny.pm:1179):
1179:            my $next;
  DB<1> c                                                             
+          
return2 is nothing yet
ini path is /home/hogan/Documents/html_template_data/6.values.ini
...
return is 1.debug.15.html
http://www.merrillpjensen.com/perlmonks/1.debug.15.html
Debugged program terminated.  Use q to quit or R to restart,
use o inhibit_exit to avoid stopping after program termination,
h q, h R or h o to get additional info.
  DB<1> q                                                             
+          
$

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All of the people you quote are elite professional programmers as opposed to the intermediate that I am, who makes useful software for his own communications, holding it all together with bubble-gum and tie-wire. I really like the price, too. Getting output adds to an already happy day....

In reply to Re^2: Using the perl debugger to look at a renaming files function by Aldebaran
in thread Using the perl debugger to look at a renaming files function by Aldebaran

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