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Re^3: Turning on regexp debugging at runtimeby SBECK (Chaplain) |
on Sep 23, 2014 at 16:15 UTC ( [id://1101675]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Thanks for both of these replies, especially the second since I wasn't aware of the DEBUG_REGEX environment variable. I should have been a bit clearer, but it appears that what I want to do probably can't be done. For example, say I have the absurdly simple script:
what I want to do is step through the code (in the debugger) and turn on debugging (by executing "use re 'debug'") when I match against $re2 but then turn it back off before proceeding to the $re3 match. I could put each in it's own scope, but that would be messy (I don't really want to put every regexp in it's own scope so that I could potentially debug it individually). Even worse is that the regexps in question were built outside of the scope, so I actually end up with something more similar to this:
which won't print any debugging info at all. Oh well, I can do what I've always done (temporarily enable debugging and then go to the point in the code I'm interested in ignoring all the unwanted debugging output).
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