1Devel::ArgNames(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Devel::ArgNames(3)
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6 Devel::ArgNames - Figure out the names of variables passed into
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10 use Devel::ArgNames;
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12 sub foo {
13 warn "foo() called with arguments: "
14 . join(", ", map { defined() ? $_ : "<unknown>" } arg_names(@_) );
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17 foo($bar, $gorch, $blah[4]);
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20 When print-debugging code, you will often ind yourself going:
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24 With this module, you can write a reusable subroutine easily:
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26 sub my_print_vars {
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36 my_print_vars($foo, $bar);
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38 This module doesn't provide dumping facilities because there are too
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42 arg_names [ $level ]
43 This function will return the names associated with the variables
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45 "arg_names"'s caller's caller will be used ("$level == 2" in that
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49 This module is maintained using Darcs. You can get the latest version
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54 Data::Dumper::Simple, DB, Devel::Caller, Devel::Caller::Perl,
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60 Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org>
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63 Copyright (c) 2007 Yuval Kogman. All rights reserved
64 This program is free software; you can redistribute
65 it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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69perl v5.34.0 2022-01-21 Devel::ArgNames(3)