SAForkAndTest

[Christopher Hicks]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Julian Field wrote:
> I haven't ever looked at Data::Dumper though. What can it do for me?

It really makes nasty data structures easier to debug:

[chicks at chicks chicks]$ cat x
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Data::Dumper;

my $x = {
                a => 1,
                b => 2,
                c => 3,
                d => 4,

                e => [qw(f g h i j k l)],
                f => {
                        m => 5,
                        n => 6,
                        o => 7,
                        p => 8,
                        q => 9,
                },
        };


print Dumper($x);

[chicks at chicks chicks]$ perl x
$VAR1 = {
          'e' => [
                   'f',
                   'g',
                   'h',
                   'i',
                   'j',
                   'k',
                   'l'
                 ],
          'f' => {
                   'm' => 5,
                   'n' => 6,
                   'o' => 7,
                   'p' => 8,
                   'q' => 9
                 },
          'a' => 1,
          'b' => 2,
          'c' => 3,
          'd' => 4
        };


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