I've given myself a headache googling on how to debug a perl script
that does not run.
Maybe `debug' is the wrong word... I'd love to know if there is a more
accurage one.
I realize this post is quite a lot of yak, but hoping someone can lay
out a few steps that will narrow down the problem.
Many, many of the google hits are all about using the debugger, which
of course is a non-starter if the darn script will not run due to
compilation errors..
I have about 100 lines or so inside a File::Find:
find (
sub {
}, $tdir;
);
Type of setup. I've beat down the multitudiness errors that perl found
during compilation. Down to the last one I'm getting.
Before posting all the boring, poorly written code, I thought I'd ask if people
here can outline a few things to do in a case like this.
So far, after getting down to this complilation error:
syntax error at ./t line 96, near "$tdir;"
Execution of ./t aborted due to compilation errors.
I've gone thru the lines trying to find what is causing the
error but of course am overlooking it.
Then I pulled just the find(...) part out, put it in its own file.. no
bang line or nothing and just ran it like: ` perl myscript'.
The error above was the result.
So, how to start breaking down the code to find the problem?
On the surface I can not see a syntactical error at that line.
which looks like this ... snipped:
[...]
} <== incloses an if clause
} <== incloses a while loop
close $fh;
}, $tdir; <== inclusing subroutine
);
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