On: Perl is 25 years old today

[prakashk]

... drop into a debugger at a predefined location in your code?

Add the line where you want the execution to stop:

    $DB::single = 1;

Then, run your program as:

    $ PERLDB_OPTS=NonStop perl -d program.pl

See: http://perldoc.perl.org/perldebug.html