The Daffodil Command Line Interface (CLI) comes with a built-in interactive debugger that pauses parsing and allows for user inspection current of the parsing state. To start Daffodil in debugger mode, provide the global --debug/-d option, for example:
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Enabling the debugger display displays a (debug) prompt, at which point various commands can be entered to control parsing and inspect Daffodil state. Below is the list of commands and their descriptions.
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