Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

API Methods

The following are methods in the DB base class. A client must access these methods by inheritance, since the API keeps track of clients through the inheritance mechanism.

CLIENT->register( )

Registers a client object/package

CLIENT->evalcode( STRING )

evals STRING in executing code context

CLIENT->skippkg(' Skip::Me ')

Asks DB not to stop in these packages

CLIENT->run( )

Runs some more (until a breakpt is reached)

CLIENT->step( )

Single step

CLIENT->next( )

Steps over

CLIENT->done( )

Deregisters from the debugging API