Also along these lines, I like to use lines that start with if 0 and if 1 as additional debugging tools. I particularly use this approach with a little subroutine that invokes Dumper (I could probably do this directly, but anyway). Again, when I want the program to dump the object, it's easy to flip the '0' to '1', and when I'm done with the need to see such output, I can easily find all patterns of ^if 1 and flip the '1' back to '0'.

For example, my "main" script might contain the following:


use strict;
require 'gen_subs.pl';

my $foo = { 'abc', 123, 'def', 456 };

gs::do_dumper( 'foo423:', $foo )   # 423 a silly, easy-to-find label
if 0;

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and a helper file/libary named 'gen_subs.pl' might contain: 


package gs;

use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

sub do_dumper {
    my ( $label, $variable ) = @_;
    my $msg = Dumper( $variable );
    warn "$label:\n$msg\n";
}

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In reply to Re^3: I usually debug via... by ff
in thread I usually debug via... by rinceWind

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