How to print like debuggers `x $HASH`

[Ian Pellew]

Hi All;

What is the call to print a HASH like the debugs print of a hash:-

EG:-
$t_xmlin = eval{XMLin($xml, forcearray=>0, NormaliseSpace=>2)};

DB<2> x $t_xmlin
0 HASH(0x22a84a8)
'define' => HASH(0x22a840c)
'gen_dir' => 'c:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/cgi-bin/Pages/Generated/'
'src_dir' => 'c:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/cgi-bin/Pages/'
Etc.

This a lot easier than the Dumper output.

Regards
Ian

 

[John Bokma]

Hi All;

What is the call to print a HASH like the debugs print of a hash:-

EG:-
$t_xmlin = eval{XMLin($xml, forcearray=>0, NormaliseSpace=>2)};

DB<2> x $t_xmlin
0 HASH(0x22a84a8)
'define' => HASH(0x22a840c)
'gen_dir' => 'c:/Program Files/Apache
Group/Apache2/cgi-bin/Pages/Generated/' 'src_dir' => 'c:/Program
Files/Apache Group/Apache2/cgi-bin/Pages/'
Etc.

This a lot easier than the Dumper output.

In what respect? Also, you can change the display behaviour of Dumper.
See $Data:umper::Indent, I use often a value of 1.

 

[Peter Scott]

Hi All;

What is the call to print a HASH like the debugs print of a hash:-

EG:-
$t_xmlin = eval{XMLin($xml, forcearray=>0, NormaliseSpace=>2)};

DB<2> x $t_xmlin
0 HASH(0x22a84a8)
'define' => HASH(0x22a840c)
'gen_dir' => 'c:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/cgi-bin/Pages/Generated/'
'src_dir' => 'c:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/cgi-bin/Pages/'
Etc.

This a lot easier than the Dumper output.

I don't think you'll find many people agreeing with that, but if
you feel you must go down this path:

% perl -e 'require "dumpvar.pl"; dumpValue([{answer => 42}], -1)'
0 HASH(0x476a4)
'answer' => 42

Ugh.

 

[Ilya Zakharevich]

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Ian Pellew

Hi All;

What is the call to print a HASH like the debugs print of a hash:-

EG:-
$t_xmlin = eval{XMLin($xml, forcearray=>0, NormaliseSpace=>2)};

DB<2> x $t_xmlin
0 HASH(0x22a84a8)
'define' => HASH(0x22a840c)
'gen_dir' => 'c:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/cgi-bin/Pages/Generated/'
'src_dir' => 'c:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/cgi-bin/Pages/'
Etc.

This a lot easier than the Dumper output.

Sure, it was designed for readability only...

use Dumpvalue;

Hope this helps,
Ilya

P.S. It may be that the debugger itself still uses the obsolete dumpvar.pl...