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Provides more descriptive diagnostics than those generated by the Perl compiler and interpreter. Uses the longer, more explanatory error messages found in the perldiag manpage. Can be used as a pragma or as a standalone program, splain. When used as a pragma, diagnostics affects the compilation phase of your program as well as the execution phase. As a standalone module, it is used to post-process errors after execution has completed.
The splain program links to diagnostics.pm to act on the standard error output of a Perl program. The program's output can be sent to a file, which is then used as input to splain, or it can be piped directly to splain. Output from splain is directed to STDOUT.
As a pragma:
use diagnostics [-verbose]
enables the use of diagnostics in your program (and enables Perl's -w flag). Compilation is then subject to the enhanced diagnostics, which are issued to STDERR. Set the diagnostics::PRETTY variable in a BEGIN block to provide nicer escape sequences for pagers, so your output looks better. The -verbose option prints the perldiag manpage introduction, then any diagnostic messages. Functions are:
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