How can I start an interactive console for Perl, similar to the irb command for Ruby or python for Python?
How can I start an interactive console for Perl, similar to the irb command
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How can I start an interactive console for Perl, similar to the irb command for Ruby or python for Python?
You can use the perl debugger on a trivial program, like so:
This command will start the Perl debugger (
-d) on expression1(-e1), because the debugger wants something to debug (usually a file containing Perl code). The command could be written asperl -d -e 1as well.Alternatively there’s Alexis Sukrieh‘s Perl Console application, but I haven’t used it.