From: Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> > It seems that there are more than one choices of perl interactive > shells. I'm wondering which one is best or most popular. > > For example, I have a perl file that first load a huge data file then > do some processing on the data file. The loading time is much longer > than the processing time. If I can not run the perl file > interactively, I will have to load the data file each time I run the > processing code. However, I can interatively run perl code, I can load > the data file once and run the processing code multiple times in order > to debug the processing code.
Apart from the perl debugger (that can be entered from within the script by this (strange looking) statement: $DB::single=2; there's also a PSH (Perl SHell) on CPAN and another unrelated PSH on http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz Jenda ===== je...@krynicky.cz === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/