Perl Editors

[ACJavascript]

Hello all!

Im have been looking for a nice small perl editor, Somthing that will just show me were my sntax error is.. I dont need these big programs like DzSoft and stuff like that..

And I do know about the STDOUT. But that is not very accurate and my scripts are getting into the 4000 line of code area and I need somthing that will help.. Please does anyone know were such a script or program is?:D?

Thanks in advance!! :D

[Feyd]

You can always use the debugger that comes with PERL. It is pretty informative, especially in conjunction with your error logs. Of course, the simplest way is to write proper code, but that isn't always feasible given certain considerations.

At your pompt (either in telnet or SSH, etc.) do a perldoc perldebug to get info on it. You can invoke it by doing perl -d yourprogram.pl. You can get help on it by doing h within the debug, or h h for the short help. (these commands are, of course, based on the default install. Your host might have tweaked, or added a different command-line debug tool).

Now, I haven't used some of these I am about to recommend (I only use UltraEdit and ColdFusion for PERL/PHP), but I've been recommended them by other people and have heard of them anyways. DzSofty is a pretty good package, but it goes beyond what most people need.

Perl Builder 2.0 (http://www.solutionsoft.com/perl.htm) might interest you.
Then there is Perl Express (http://www.perl-express.com/) which is a desktop IDE.

I'd still recommend the PERL debugger, though...

[ACJavascript]

Hey thanks alot Feyd I will try all of those options! :D


Thanks!