I have been using the perl interactive debugger (basically perl -d script
)
I have a script that has quite a lot of modules imported and I need to debug a problem.
What I do is start the debugger and go over lines, stepping into where necessary.
But this is tedious as I need to step into many lines of code and function calls.
Question: Let's say that after going over the lines of code I eventually step into function A::B::C::foo()
of some module where is the problem I am debugging.
Is there a way to set a break point in that function in the beginning of the debugging session so that I jump there directly instead of going over the code line by line until I reach there?
I know that I can add a break point in the same file my debugger is currently but how can I add a breakpoint in a line that is outside of the debugger's scope at this point (to some arbitrary file/module that eventually the debugger would have reached)?
Note:
Just to clarify: It is not like A::B::C::foo()
is in line X of the script. It is eventually called after going down the call chain of a lot other functions in many modules
You may set a break point by defining file name and then line number
where line number is inside the module function you want to break at.