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How do I get stack traces in Perl?
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How do I get stack traces in Perl?
There are many useful, core and CPAN based tools to generate a stack trace (as other answers illustrate.) However, if you want to roll your own, check out the caller
builtin. You can use this to walk down the stack and see exactly what's happening.
Carp::confess
(from use Carp;
) will give you a full stack trace as part of the error. If you just need it as part of something failing, confess
is all you really need.
Per comments, here's output of various Carp
functions:
use strict;
use warnings;
use Carp qw/longmess cluck confess/;
sub foo {
&bar;
}
sub bar {
&baz;
}
sub baz {
shift->();
}
my %tests = (
'longmess' => sub { print longmess 'longmess' },
'cluck' => sub { cluck 'using cluck' },
'confess' => sub { confess 'using confess' },
);
while (my ($name, $sub) = each %tests) {
print "$name - before eval:\n";
eval {
foo($sub);
};
print "$name - before if:\n";
if ($@) {
print "caught: $@";
}
print "$name - done\n\n";
}
Running this script, you get:
longmess - before eval: longmess at - line 14 main::baz called at - line 10 main::bar called at - line 6 main::foo('CODE(0x183a4d0)') called at - line 26 eval {...} called at - line 25 longmess - before if: longmess - done confess - before eval: confess - before if: caught: using confess at - line 20 main::__ANON__() called at - line 14 main::baz called at - line 10 main::bar called at - line 6 main::foo('CODE(0x183a3e0)') called at - line 26 eval {...} called at - line 25 confess - done cluck - before eval: using cluck at - line 19 main::__ANON__() called at - line 14 main::baz called at - line 10 main::bar called at - line 6 main::foo('CODE(0x183a434)') called at - line 26 eval {...} called at - line 25 cluck - before if: cluck - done
Running this script but redirecting STDOUT (thus showing what gets printed on STDERR), you get:
using cluck at - line 19 main::__ANON__() called at - line 14 main::baz called at - line 10 main::bar called at - line 6 main::foo('CODE(0x183a434)') called at - line 26 eval {...} called at - line 25
For debugging needs, I like Carp::Always.
perl -MCarp::Always my_script.pl
Easy way using caller
.
This code does not use any additional module. Just include it where needed.
my $i = 1;
print "Stack Trace:\n";
while ( (my @call_details = (caller($i++))) ){
print $call_details[1].":".$call_details[2]." in function ".$call_details[3]."\n";
}