Are there other ways for debugging Perl programs apart from Data::Dumper and perl -d?
Available tools for debugging
There are several tools available in Perl for debugging and similar tasks.
Built-in command line debugger.
perl -d yourcode.pl
Devel::ptkdb
Perl/Tk based graphical debugger by Andrew E. Page.
Regex Coach
This a free tool running both on Linux and Windows written in Lisp. Source code is not available.
Rx: A Regex Debugger for Perl
The Perl Regex debugger and an article about it written by Mark Jason Dominus.
A GUI for the Perl Debugger