Escape chars in the prompt of perl5db.pl

[Dasn]

Hello, I hope this is the right place to ask this question.

I'm writing a program to communicate with perl debugger. The thing I
found hard to handle is the Escape chars output from the prompt, for
example, on my platform, the "DB<1>" is:
"<Esc>[4m DB<1> <Esc>[24m<Esc>[1m"

My question is: Is it possible to turn off these escape chars in perldb,
without changing perl5db.pl?

Thanks, please Cc me.

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Dasn

[Peter Scott]

On Thu, 07 May 2009 07:43:59 +0800, Dasn wrote:
> I'm writing a program to communicate with perl debugger. The thing I
> found hard to handle is the Escape chars output from the prompt, for
> example, on my platform, the "DB<1>" is:
> "<Esc>[4m DB<1> <Esc>[24m<Esc>[1m"
>
> My question is: Is it possible to turn off these escape chars in perldb,
> without changing perl5db.pl?

Try setting the TERM environment variable to 'dumb'.

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