What are some good Perl debugging methods?

Question

Are there other ways for debugging Perl programs apart from Data::Dumper and perl -d?

Answer 1

Available tools for debugging

There are several tools available in Perl for debugging and similar tasks.

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Built-in command line debugger.

perl -d yourcode.pl

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Devel::ptkdb

Perl/Tk based graphical debugger by Andrew E. Page.

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Regex Coach

This a free tool running both on Linux and Windows written in Lisp. Source code is not available.

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Rx: A Regex Debugger for Perl

The Perl Regex debugger and an article about it written by Mark Jason Dominus.

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A GUI for the Perl Debugger