Question

I was debugging a perl program on SuSe Linux using “perl -d” switch.

While debugging, the program was reporting XYZ variable is not set

How can I set the value of XYZ inside the debugger?

I tried following inside the debugger but not working.

set XYZ=ABC
my $XYZ=ABC
setenv XYZ ABC

I did a bit of google on this. But couldn’t find what I wanted.

Answer 1

The debug console takes Perl expressions, so you need to quote the value if it is a string.

You will have to move the program to before the line that throws the error (look at breakpoints, it’s b <line> in the debugger) and then set the value.

> $XYZ='ABC'

Here’s a good resource: http://obsidianrook.com/devnotes/talks/perl_debugger/