Section 3.11. Open Source Perl GUI Debuggers

3.11 Open Source Perl GUI Debuggers

A number of excellent Perl GUI debuggers provide graphical interfaces for diagnosing problems in your Perl programs. The quickest way to get up to speed on the general topic of debugging in Perl is to type the following commands:

 $ perldoc perldebug $ perldoc perldiag 

Perlish people tend to use command-line debug programs with major sprinklings of print statements. But several open source GUI debugger programs are out there that you might want to consider. We've listed the best-known in Table 3-6.

Table 3-6. Open source Perl GUI debugging programs

GUI	Description
perldbgui	A GUI for the standard Perl debugger: http:// members .tripod.com/~CurtMcKelvey/perldbgui
ptkdb	This can work with Apache Perl scripts and is shown in Figure 3-17: http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/A/AE/AEPAGE
Open Perl IDE	This IDE, described in the previous section, can help write and debug Perl programs: http:// sourceforge .net/projects/open-perl-ide

Figure 3-17. ptkdb ” Stepping into the DBI module