EPIC on Eclipse: doesn't show $

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I have a problem in Eclipse/EPIC. When debugging a Perl program under Eclipse/EPIC, asking for "Perl Internal Variables view", it doesn't show the Perl variables: $_, $1, $2, etc..., $`, $' and $&.

It does show @INC, @_, $/, $<, $-, $= and several others. But I need $_, $1, $2 (etc.), $`, $' and $&, they are important.

Software, versions and system: Eclipse version 3.7.1 build M20110909-1335, EPIC version 0.6.44, Active Perl 5.14.2 running on Windows 7.

TIA Helen

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Re: EPIC on Eclipse: doesn't show $_ by chrestomanci (Priest) on May 29, 2012 at 09:44 UTC
I just did a test on `$_` using: `foreach ( qw(a b c) ) { print $_."\n"; }` [download] It shows up under "Global Variables" not perl internal variables It only shows up when `$_` is in scope, so it disappears once I exit the loop, and if I rewrite the for loop above with a named temporary variable, then it never appears. I was testing under linux, but with the same version of Eclipse and perl, so it should be comparable to your setup.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: EPIC on Eclipse: doesn't show $_
by chrestomanci (Priest) on May 29, 2012 at 09:44 UTC

I just did a test on $_ using:

foreach ( qw(a b c) )
{
    print $_."\n";
}
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It shows up under "Global Variables" not perl internal variables
It only shows up when $_ is in scope, so it disappears once I exit the loop, and if I rewrite the for loop above with a named temporary variable, then it never appears.

I was testing under linux, but with the same version of Eclipse and perl, so it should be comparable to your setup.

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