----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | PadWalker v0.03 - Robin Houston ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION PadWalker is a module which allows you to inspect (and even change!) lexical variables in any subroutine which called you. It will only show those variable which are in-scope at the point of the call. The `peek_my' routine takes one parameter, the number of call levels to go back. (It works the same way as caller() does.) It returns a reference to a hash which associates each variable name with a reference to its value. The variable names include the prefix, so $x is actually '$x'. For example: my $x = 12; my $h = peek_my (0); ${$h->{'$x'}}++; print $x; # prints 13 Or a more complex example: sub increment_my_x { my $h = peek_my (1); ${$h->{'$x'}}++; } my $x=5; increment_my_x; print $x; # prints 6 AUTHOR Robin Houston