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From: dcd@tc.fluke.COM (David Dyck)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Are conditional breakpoints broken?
Keywords: perl -d debugger conditional breakpoints perldb.pl
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.050512.24837@tc.fluke.COM>
Date: 14 Nov 90 05:05:12 GMT
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
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I set a breakpoint with a condition that will never happen
but the breakpoint still occurs.

Are conditional breakpoints broken, or how do I set a conditional
breakpoint?  
	(I started out doing a command like: "b 2 $a eq 'b'",
	but that didn't work either).

>cat -n t
     1	for $a (a, b, c) {
     2		print "$a\n";
     3	}

>perl -d t

Loading DB routines from perldb.pl 3.0.1.4 90/10/15

Enter h for help.

main'(t:1):     for $a (a, b, c) {
  DB<1> b 2 1==2
  DB<2> c
main'(t:2):             print "$a\n";
  DB<2> p 1==2
0
  DB<3> L
1:      for $a (a, b, c) {
2:              print "$a\n";
  break if (1==2)


Anyone have any ideas?

            David Dyck
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