Debugging and Error-Handling Overview

IDL provides several tooks to help find and handle errors in your code. This chapter describes debugging and error-handling features that are intrinsic to IDL itself — they are available at the IDL command prompt (either in command-line or graphical mode), or programmatically via IDL routines and statements.

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The IDL Workbench provides additional debugging features that can speed debugging of your IDL code. See Debugging Tools in the IDL Workbench online documentation for a complete description.