zimon / DebugMessages

Provides more useful debug messages for perl projects using stacktraces

DebugMessages for perl

Include this module in your perl projects for getting a stacktrace in case of an error or warning.

Features

• Prints out stacktrace with given depth
• Prints out error messages and warnings
• Prints out x lines before and after error
• Prints out all parameters of called functions
• Automatic indenting
• Nicer List printing possible

Usage

use lib "path/to/module";
use DebugMessages errors => x, warnings => y, level => z, exit_on_warning => b, verbose => v;

with:

• b - 1 to exit the program when a warning occures.
• v - 1 to print compact Dumpvalues of Lists and Hashes. 2 to print verbose Dumpvalues.
• x - number of lines to print before and after the line that produced the error. -1 disables DebugMessages for errors.
• y - number of lines to print before and after the line that produced the warning. -1 disables DebugMessages for warnings.
• z - depth for stacktrace (default is 3)

List Output

Print your list @list = ("Hello World","How are you") with

print "[@list]\n";

then you get [Hello World] [How are you]

instead of [Hello World How are you]