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Wicked Cool Perl Scripts
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Wicked Cool Perl Scripts

by Steve Oualline
February 2006
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
6h 16m
English
No Starch Press
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Chapter 3. CGI DEBUGGING

Perl and the Web were made for each other. The Perl language is ideal for processing text in an environment where speed does not matter. Perl can munch text and use it to produce dynamic web pages with ease.

But programming in a CGI environment is not the easiest thing in the world. There is no built-in CGI debugger. Also, error messages and other information can easily get lost or misplaced. In short, if your program is not perfect, things can get a little weird.

In this chapter, I'll show you some of the Perl hacks you can use to help debug your CGI programs.

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