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| author | Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com> | 2002-02-12 15:54:01 -0500 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-02-13 05:12:28 +0000 |
| commit | 3ae893bd03a243c0d4ba2d7741ae988e0043470f (patch) | |
| tree | cb612acf9ba8166e0c5bd599b77bc1dd9fb1db78 /pod/perldebug.pod | |
| parent | d03c2a1b901127d77518bbc18d5271b287c9e28b (diff) | |
| download | perl-3ae893bd03a243c0d4ba2d7741ae988e0043470f.tar.gz | |
New command syntax for 'x' command
Message-ID: <20020213015401.25685.qmail@plover.com>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@14671
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perldebug.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldebug.pod | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldebug.pod b/pod/perldebug.pod index 833d8877ea..fce444e751 100644 --- a/pod/perldebug.pod +++ b/pod/perldebug.pod @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ data structures and objects are not dumped, unlike with the C<x> command. The C<DB::OUT> filehandle is opened to F</dev/tty>, regardless of where STDOUT may be redirected to. -=item x expr +=item x [maxdepth] expr Evaluates its expression in list context and dumps out the result in a pretty-printed fashion. Nested data structures are printed out @@ -88,6 +88,10 @@ See L<Dumpvalue> if you'd like to do this yourself. The output format is governed by multiple options described under L<"Configurable Options">. +If the C<maxdepth> is included, it must be a numeral I<N>; the value is +dumped only I<N> levels deep, as if the C<dumpDepth> option had been +deporarily set to I<N>. + =item V [pkg [vars]] Display all (or some) variables in package (defaulting to C<main>) |