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From: crehta@tasu73.UUCP (Ran Ever-Hadani)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Debug Option
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Date: 11 Apr 90 09:26:55 GMT
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In article <1990Apr10.202336.17704@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> gaspar@STL-08SIMA.ARMY.MIL writes:
>
>I was messing around with the debugger today, and I found that (as
>advertised) 'perl -de 0' would dump me into the debugger, but that
>'perl -ed 0' just put me back to my prompt.  I'm just curious.  Is
>this behavior correct?  Are there other options that must be given
>in a particular order?

Calling 'perl -ape' works as documented, while 'perl -pea' seems 
to ignore the 'a' and behave like -pe.  Same goes for -ane and -nea.

-- Ran
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