Ruby irb equivalent in Perl?

Question

I'm from a Ruby background. Just wanted to know if there is something like Ruby irb in perl?

Answer 1

Yes, there is a perl debugger. Canonical team

perl -de 1 

to open an interactive session where you can execute arbitrary Perl statements.

See perldoc perldebug for documentation.

Answer 2

Check the Perl :: Shell or psh shell module .

Answer 3

Also see Devel :: REPL and iPerl .

Answer 4

Not quite what you wanted, but psh is nice.