NAME

Devel::PrettyTrace - prints stack traces with arguments expanded into readable format

SYNOPSIS

    use Devel::PrettyTrace;
        
    sub foo{
        bar();
    }

    sub bar{
        bt;
    }

    foo(1, "b");

    #and you get
        
    main::bar() called at foo.pl line 4
    main::foo(
        [0] 1,
        [1] "b"
    ) called at foo.pl line 10

DESCRIPTION

This module allows you to see detailed and pretty formatted stack straces of perl functions call. It exports a single function - bt. In void context, it sends it's output to STDERR. In scalar context, it returns you collected data as string.

CONFIGURATION

$Indent

This string is appended to each line of output. Defaults to ' ' (two spaces).

$Evalen

How many symbols of a string eval to print. Defaults to 40.

$Deeplimit

How many call frames to go up. Defaults to 0 (unlimited).

$Skiplevels

How many calls up of the current frame to start printing. Defaults to 0 (do not skip anything).

%IgnorePkg

Functions in a packages that are hash keys of %IgnorePkg are not shown in the stack trace output.

%Opts

Options for Data::Printer, that determine how to render arguments. If you need special formatting, do it here.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2011,2018 by Sergey Aleynikov

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.1 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.