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Debugging Perl Debugging Tecniques

Perl provides several forms of debugging capabilities, including

• Those specific to Perl
  • The perl -c option to check syntax

  • The perl -w option to check sanity (warnings)

• Those more typical of compiled languages
  • Print statements!

  • The perl -d script args option to run a script under the control of an interactive debugger
    NOTE: To use the -d option, the Perl package must have been compiled with the perl debugging feature enabled