What's the difference between x and p in perl -d?

  x|m expr       Evals expr in list context, dumps the result or lists methods.
  p expr         Print expression (uses script's current package).

They seems identical to开发者_StackOverflow社区 me,what's different?

Also,is there any short cut like up/down arrow key in shell environment?

See perldoc perldebug:

p expr Same as "print {$DB::OUT} expr" in the current package. In particular, because this is just Perl's own "print" function, this means that nested data structures and objects are not dumped, unlike with the "x" command.

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Readline Support / History in the debugger As shipped, the only command-line history supplied is a simplistic one that checks for leading exclamation points. However, if you install the Term::ReadKey and Term::ReadLine modules from CPAN (such as Term::ReadLine::Gnu, Term::ReadLine::Perl, ...) you will have full editing capabilities much like GNU readline(3) provides. Look for these in the modules/by-module/Term directory on CPAN.

Simply put: x prints data structures, p prints scalar values. Try both: p {x=>1, y=>2} is hardly meaningful, but x {x=>1, y=>2} makes sense.