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Various tracing modules

You might be familiar with Bash's set -x. Or even Basic's TRON command, which may have been related to the movie 'Tron'.

automatically trace things, without having to add code in every subroutine

trace whenever a variable gets changed

only displays a full stack (with subroutine arguments) for very specific conditions... not every line

using Devel::DumpTrace in a CGI script

To use Devel::DumpTrace in a CGI script, just modify the first line that reads #!/usr/bin/perl with: Then add this near the very top of the script:

library-specific logging/tracing