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13.3 Debug Mode

There are two additional support functions that allow the user to interrogate where in the execution of a script Octave entered the debug mode and to print the lines in the script surrounding that point.

Loadable Function: dbwhere ()

Show where we are in the code

See also dbclear, dbstatus, dbstop

Loadable Function: dbtype ()

List script file with line numbers.

See also dbclear, dbstatus, dbstop

Debug mode also allows single line stepping through a function using the commands dbstep and dbnext. These differ slightly in the way they treat the next executable line if the next line itself is a function defined in an m-file. The dbnext command will execute the next line, while staying in the existing function being debugged. The dbstep command will step in to the new function.