Re: dereferencing a hash from the debugger won't work

diff --git a/lib/perl5db.pl b/lib/perl5db.pl
index c985f64..a57475c 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/perl5db.pl
+++ b/lib/perl5db.pl
@@ -797,8 +797,8 @@ sub DB {
                              unless $hist[$i] =~ /^.?$/;
                        };
                        next CMD; };
-                   $cmd =~ s/^p$/print \$DB::OUT \$_/;
-                   $cmd =~ s/^p\b/print \$DB::OUT /;
+                   $cmd =~ s/^p$/print {\$DB::OUT} \$_/;
+                   $cmd =~ s/^p\b/print {\$DB::OUT} /;
                    $cmd =~ /^=/ && do {
                        if (local($k,$v) = ($cmd =~ /^=\s*(\S+)\s+(.*)/)) {
                            $alias{$k}="s~$k~$v~";
@@ -1328,7 +1328,7 @@ $psh$psh cmd      Run cmd in a subprocess (reads from DB::IN, writes to DB::OUT)"
 $psh [cmd]     Run cmd in subshell (forces \"\$SHELL -c 'cmd'\")." ) . "
                See 'O shellBang' too.
 H -number      Display last number commands (default all).
-p expr         Same as \"print DB::OUT expr\" in current package.
+p expr         Same as \"print {DB::OUT} expr\" in current package.
 |dbcmd         Run debugger command, piping DB::OUT to current pager.
 ||dbcmd                Same as |dbcmd but DB::OUT is temporarilly select()ed as well.
 \= [alias value]       Define a command alias, or list current aliases.