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From: thompson@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Brent Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: simple debugger help wanted
Summary: $[ different in debugger from in script
Message-ID: <5946@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Sep 90 23:56:26 GMT
Reply-To: thompson@hplabs.hpl.hp.com (Brent Thompson)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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I can't get the debugger (pl18, if that matters) to behave nicely.

I am just trying to verify that my arrays are setup as expected, but $[
is set differently for the executing script from what I see in the
debugger and this is error-provoking and aggravating.

Very near the beginning my perl script does
$[ = 1;		# a holdover from the days of awk

But when I run the thing as 'perl -d', every time I ask what is $[, it is 0.
Imbedded 'print $[;' always shows 1, as expected.  If I manually set $[=1,
everything is ok until the next record, when $[ has reverted back to 0 (of
course this is only the one I see from the debugger, not the one the script
is working with).

What's happening?
-- 
Brent Thompson
HP Labs, 1501 Page Mill Road, Bldg. 1U, Palo Alto, CA 94304