Re: [MacPerl] Script works with debugger but .....

[jmanley@metronet.com (Jim Manley)]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

>could it be the jim versus Jim
>
No.  The regular expression /^jim\b/i takes care of the case.

>
>>>> if ($name =~ /^jim\b/i) {
>>>>     print "Hello, Jim! How good of you to be here!\n";
>>>> } else {
>>>>
>>>> When I run the script without the debugger, it executes the first
>>>> print statement properly.  When I enter "Jim", the script exits
>>>> but does not execute the second print statement.
>>>>
>>>> If I run the script with the debugger, it runs as expected.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have any clues?
>>>
>>>The code is fine (works flawlessly in perl 4 on a Sun), but I agree
>>>that it exhibits the problem you describe under MacPerl 5.05r1m.
>>>Actually, it looks like it works correctly the first time, but if you
>>>run it again without restarting MacPerl, then only the prompt string is
>>>printed, no matter what you type in response.
>>>
>>You're correct.  Another person suggested I put
>>
>>        select( (select(STDOUT), $|)[0] );
>>
>>at the head of the script but that didn't make any difference.
>>
>>I'm new at this and to this mailing list so tell me, does this constitute
>>a bug that should be sent back to Matthias Ulrich Neeracher?
>>
>>
>>Just for grins, I uploaded the program to my ISP and ran it on an HP
>>using HP-UX 9.01 and Perl5.  It worked there but displayed some other
>>interesting problems.
>>
>>I attempted to establish a dbm fileset using the following:
>>
>>        dbmopen(%last_good,"lastdb",0666);
>>        $last_good{$name} = time;
>>        dbmclose(%last_good);
>>
>>When I ran the script by itself, it failed to create the dbm fileset.
>>When I ran it using "perl -d script_name" and single stepped through
>>it, it worked as expected.
>>
>>Something screwy going on with the debugger?
>>
>>Jim Manley
>>jmanley@metronet.com
>>http://www.metronet.com/~jmanley
>>Finger for PGP Public Key
>>
>>
>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>Version: 2.6.2
>>
>>iQCVAwUBMQsgPivYMV4IyPatAQGmYwP+KdTkwP32wqK3xGHj8JOljOLVZ+iSwP0R
>>zR8Rn7hOeBSuN0Lb/TzNy9mQNYjqN6jv0v6v5jv/4He77a0gejEfbTsh+EJlruLm
>>qaLtmbXni6E13+bbnserFbc+9wBDkXhzDixPxcGP3C0ElZESC++qZY7scypYD666
>>zzw0XokanDU=
>>=IH+L
>>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.6.2

iQCVAwUBMQxBOyvYMV4IyPatAQHZHQP+Ih+ssD8E7h1QxjNgWQBOQja67Nqf7xd9
CpAuAJOuaBgMeKvHC/8G/9BiBDvvnr4vEXnUrFAQD6N8BImacqC4BDbZ8s729Qlh
mZuRjYxt0yrt8xzbcjY0PW+W+44Un4jzoLljL5w5h9r2hRd/mLFVD+mC3TfTfzNo
ug01furvCEo=
=HPP5
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----