Perl programming on MPE/iX - April 2002

Solution Symposium Page 35April 4, 2002
debugging
invoke the debugger by starting Perl with the -d parameter
#!/PERL/PUB/perl -d
examine or modify variables
single-step execution
set breakpoints
list source code
set actions to be done before a line is executed
a 53 print "DB FOUND $foo\n"
debugger terminal I/O may act a bit strangely on MPE