Hello schrodinger, and welcome to the Monastery!
You should also look at the module Pry, by the Monastery’s own tobyink. From the documentation:
This module gives you a function called pry that you can drop into your code anywhere. When Perl executes that line of code, it will stop and drop you into a REPL. You can use the REPL to inspect any lexical variables (and even alter them), call functions and methods, and so on.
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Once you've finished using the REPL, just hit Ctrl+D and your code will resume execution.
Hope that helps,
