What debugger for perl?

Question

I came from PHP and I used zenddebugger to debug PHP.

How can I debug perl?

Answer 1

Using the Perl built-in debugger?

perldoc perldebug 

Answer 2

While Jonathan's answer is optimal, use strict and warning pragmas:

 use strict; use warnings; 

Help you catch most of your mistakes if you are not already using them.

Answer 3

Here is my debug tip revised from perlmonks.

Let the debugger automatically stop the program when a warning is issued from the Perl runtime system. So you can look at the context of the problem and explore.

This node gives motivation and here it is in its final form .

Answer 4

Anyway you choose, be sure to add Data::Dumper to your debugging routines.

Answer 5

Devel :: Peek is a good tool for debugging data.