[Buffalo-pm] one liner

[Kevin Eye]

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Also, I could do a "lightning talk" on this. Maybe 10 or 15 minutes. 
Certainly not an hour and a half. If it were that complex, it wouldn't 
be worth using :-)

  - Kevin

On Sunday, June 22, 2003, at 08:59  PM, Matt Beato wrote:

> Kevin,
>
> The "psh" utility sounds great. Is there any way I could get a copy of 
> it? I have no desire to redistribute it, just utilize it for my 
> personal use.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- Matt
> --
> Matt Beato
>
> On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 03:37 PM, Kevin Eye wrote:
>
>>> one of my favorite perl command line utilities:
>>>
>>> perl -de 0
>>
>> Hang on there - that deserves far more than a passing mention. In 
>> fact, I'd go so far as to say that this tiny line, which lets one 
>> interactively enter and test code, is almost certainly the most 
>> under-appreciated feature of the language.
>>
>> To clarify things, "perl -de 0" (aka. "perl -de0" or "perl -de 1") 
>> will invoke the perl debugger on the very short program "0" (or "1", 
>> or whatever). This alone is not very interesting, however, the perl 
>> debugger is a full-fledged interactive perl interpreter, evaluating 
>> anything you enter. It's extremely handy to test a couple lines of 
>> code, or see how a built-in function or module will handle a certain 
>> input. The debugger's "x" command is also very useful, as it will 
>> print out the contents of any complex data structure (e.g. an object, 
>> an array of hash refs, etc.).
>>
>> Not being able to leave well-enough alone, I've actually turned this 
>> concept into an entire program I call "psh" (perl shell). It lets you 
>> enter commands interactively just like the debugger, and uses 
>> Data::Dumper to print the results. I can't live without it.
>>
>> I'd love to demo this concept and program at a future meeting if 
>> there's time in our schedule. Let me know what you think.
>>
>>  - Kevin
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kevin Eye
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>> Creative Services and Marketing
>> University at Buffalo
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>> Buffalo, NY 14260
>> eye at buffalo.edu
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Kevin Eye
Web Applications Developer
Creative Services and Marketing
University at Buffalo
330 Crofts Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260
eye at buffalo.edu
phone (716) 645-5000 x1435
fax (716) 645-3765