Ho wo create single BIG program with all values of variables by parsing a perl program

[dineshbhatta1973]

How to create single BIG program with all values of variables by parsing a perl program For e.g. following is a code will loop through 5 times:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;

sub myLoop( $ )
{
    my $a = shift;
    print "Loop: $a\n";
}

my $a = 1;

while( $a < 5 )
{
    myLoop( $a );
    $a++;
}

print "After loop: \$a=$a\n";

I want to create a single BIG program with all the possible VALUES using the above script as input and the single program should contain all the values each time the myLoop() is executed. Is there any CPAN module to achieve this? i need this because this helps for debugging and want to use this program to output in HTML format with each LOOP as "OK" of "NOT OK". This will help in identifying with what input the script failed. The possible output i am looking is:

sub myLoop( 1 )
{
    my $a = shift;
    print "Loop: 1\n";
}

sub myLoop( 2 )
{
    my $a = shift;
    print "Loop: 2\n";
}

sub myLoop( 3 )
{
    my $a = shift;
    print "Loop: 3\n";
}

sub myLoop( 4 )
{
    my $a = shift;
    print "Loop: 4\n";
}

print "After loop: \$a=5\n";

[jethro]

Have you looked at the built-in perl debugger. You can print out all lexical variables with the y command, all non-lexials with V or X. With w you can get a message whenever a specific variable changes its value. You can single-step through the code and automatically do something (like y or V) before each prompt with the '<' command.

Read "perldoc perldebug" and wonder at all the things you can do ;-)

[Anonymous Monk]

I kinda doubt you really want that, I think you want Devel::TraceCalls or Devel::Trace. I suppose you *could* marry the two, but I don't think anyone has

[GrandFather]

You can't. At least except for trivial and mostly uninteresting scripts it is either not possible or is infeasible. Consider:

use strict;
use warnings;

my $count = 1;

while ($count < $ARGV[1]) {
    prn("$count\n");
}


sub prn {
    print $_[0];
}

how do you deal with the loop limit being $ARGV1?