Re: sure would be nice if Perl had trace command built-in

2015-12-22 Thread Dermot
I tend to use Strawberry perl these days and would certainly recommend it. Regarding the file paths you mentioned, the double back slash is correct but also difficult to read. I change my windows scripts to use File::Spec paths whenever I have to revisit them. This makes paths portable and easy on

Re: sure would be nice if Perl had trace command built-in

2015-12-12 Thread Mike Flannigan
On 12/10/2015 5:40 AM, beginners-digest-h...@perl.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Brock Wilcox wrote: >Give devel::trace or devel::tracemore a try:) Is it possible to install this from Active State repository without having an-up-date ActiveState Perl DevKit license? Thanks,

Re: sure would be nice if Perl had trace command built-in

2015-12-08 Thread Ken Slater
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:35 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Kenneth Wolcott > wrote: > > Hi; > > > > I've inherited a lot of Perl [mostly ActiveState] (and bash) scripts > > were the former writers and maintainers did not use "use strict" and > > "use warnings" and

Re: sure would be nice if Perl had trace command built-in

2015-12-07 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Brock Wilcox wrote: > I don't know. But I think that worst case you can just download the single > file from this library and add it to your application directly. It requires > no compilation or anything. > > https://metacpan.org/source/MJD/Devel-Trace-0.12/Trace.pm

Re: sure would be nice if Perl had trace command built-in

2015-12-07 Thread Brock Wilcox
I don't know. But I think that worst case you can just download the single file from this library and add it to your application directly. It requires no compilation or anything. https://metacpan.org/source/MJD/Devel-Trace-0.12/Trace.pm --Brock On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wr

Re: sure would be nice if Perl had trace command built-in

2015-12-07 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Brock Wilcox wrote: > Give devel::trace or devel::tracemore a try :) Is it possible to install this from Active State repository without having an-up-date ActiveState Perl DevKit license? Thanks, Ken Wolcott -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.

Re: sure would be nice if Perl had trace command built-in

2015-12-07 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > Hi; > > I've inherited a lot of Perl [mostly ActiveState] (and bash) scripts > were the former writers and maintainers did not use "use strict" and > "use warnings" and have other "less than Best Practices". Most of the > scripts are exec

Re: sure would be nice if Perl had trace command built-in

2015-12-07 Thread Brock Wilcox
Give devel::trace or devel::tracemore a try :) On Dec 7, 2015 21:32, "Kenneth Wolcott" wrote: > Hi; > > I've inherited a lot of Perl [mostly ActiveState] (and bash) scripts > were the former writers and maintainers did not use "use strict" and > "use warnings" and have other "less than Best Pra