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Want to just click on a Perl program's icon and have it run? Want to simply type in the name of a file at the command prompt and have your operating system know it's a Perl program? This module tells you how. You'll also learn how to check the syntax of your program without running it, and how to get extra warnings out in the process if your code isn't "clean".
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1865 | Debugging and Data::Dumper in Perl I'll admit it - I'm not a great fan of debuggers, preferring to write well structured code, and check it out with a few test / intermediate print statements. You'll often find I code:
$trace and print (something);
in Perl, and this allows me to add a line
$trace=1;
at ... | 2008-11-01 |
748 | Getting rid of variables after you have finished with them If you've finished with a variable in your program, you can usually just leave it "in situe" and it will be destroyed and the memory it occupied will be released when you exit from your program. In many languages, variables within named blocks of code have an even shorter "shelf life" - by default, a ... | 2006-06-09 |
328 | Making programs easy for any user to start If you write a program in Perl, your colleague writes a program in Tcl/Tk and your company runs an open source program that's written in Python, how do your users ensure that they get the right interpretter to run the program? You certainly don't want them to have to remember to type something like:
perl ... | 2006-06-05 |
743 | How to debug a Perl program Have you every written a Perl program that doesn't perform as you would wish? Yes, everyone who's written a Perl program has done that. Once any syntax errors have been corrected, you run your program for the first time and you check - VERY carefully - the results. Any errors, and the patterns of errors, ... | 2006-06-05 |
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Topics covered in this module
Integrating your program with your computer.
Unix and Linux systems (including Solaris and OS X).
Executable path.
File Permissions.
Telling the calling shell this is Perl.
Windows 98, 2000, NT and XP systems.
Associating your file with Perl.
Running your program.
MS-DOS users.
Macintosh.
Classic OS 9 and earlier.
The compiler and the interpreter.
Compiled languages.
Interpreted languages.
The middle way -- Perl.
Some questions on compilers and interpreters.
Can I run just the compiler to check if I've got the syntax (language) of my program correct?.
What if I make a mistake in my program?.
Debugging tools.
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