From 3ae893bd03a243c0d4ba2d7741ae988e0043470f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 15:54:01 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] New command syntax for 'x' command Message-ID:
 <20020213015401.25685.qmail@plover.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@14671
---
 lib/perl5db.pl    | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 pod/perldebug.pod |  6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/perl5db.pl b/lib/perl5db.pl
index 1f50211..4e7ff9e 100644
--- a/lib/perl5db.pl
+++ b/lib/perl5db.pl
@@ -23,8 +23,13 @@ sub eval {
     if ($at) {
 	print $OUT $at;
     } elsif ($onetimeDump) {
-	dumpit($OUT, \@res) if $onetimeDump eq 'dump';
-	methods($res[0])    if $onetimeDump eq 'methods';
+      if ($onetimeDump eq 'dump')  {
+        local $option{dumpDepth} = $onetimedumpDepth 
+          if defined $onetimedumpDepth;
+	dumpit($OUT, \@res);
+      } elsif ($onetimeDump eq 'methods') {
+	methods($res[0]) ;
+      }
     }
     @res;
 }
@@ -821,7 +826,12 @@ EOP
 			select ($savout);
 			next CMD; };
 		    $cmd =~ s/^x\b/ / && do { # So that will be evaled
-			$onetimeDump = 'dump'; };
+			$onetimeDump = 'dump'; 
+                        # handle special  "x 3 blah" syntax
+                        if ($cmd =~ s/^\s*(\d+)(?=\s)/ /) {
+                          $onetimedumpDepth = $1;
+                        }
+                      };
 		    $cmd =~ s/^m\s+([\w:]+)\s*$/ / && do {
 			methods($1); next CMD};
 		    $cmd =~ s/^m\b/ / && do { # So this will be evaled
@@ -1522,6 +1532,7 @@ EOP
 	    $evalarg = "\$^D = \$^D | \$DB::db_stop;\n$cmd"; &eval;
 	    if ($onetimeDump) {
 		$onetimeDump = undef;
+                $onetimedumpDepth = undef;
 	    } elsif ($term_pid == $$) {
 		print $OUT "\n";
 	    }
diff --git a/pod/perldebug.pod b/pod/perldebug.pod
index 833d887..fce444e 100644
--- a/pod/perldebug.pod
+++ b/pod/perldebug.pod
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ data structures and objects are not dumped, unlike with the C<x> command.
 The C<DB::OUT> filehandle is opened to F</dev/tty>, regardless of
 where STDOUT may be redirected to.
 
-=item x expr
+=item x [maxdepth] expr
 
 Evaluates its expression in list context and dumps out the result
 in a pretty-printed fashion.  Nested data structures are printed out
@@ -88,6 +88,10 @@ See L<Dumpvalue> if you'd like to do this yourself.
 The output format is governed by multiple options described under
 L<"Configurable Options">.
 
+If the C<maxdepth> is included, it must be a numeral I<N>; the value is
+dumped only I<N> levels deep, as if the C<dumpDepth> option had been
+deporarily set to I<N>.
+
 =item V [pkg [vars]]
 
 Display all (or some) variables in package (defaulting to C<main>) 
-- 
2.7.4