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Pretty Print Dumper for Hash of Array

by Anonymous Monk
on Sep 20, 2005 at 06:35 UTC ( [id://493372]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Respectable Monks,
Actually, This is a continuation of my earlier posting. Now with this code,
perl -MData::Dumper -e ' $Data::Dumper::Indent = 0; $hoa = {a => [1,2], 'b'=>[1,3], c=> [2,0]}; print Dumper $hoa; print "\n";'
How can I modify it to create:
$VAR1 = { 'c' => [2,0], 'a' => [1,2], 'b' => [1,3] };
Basically my intention is to make the indentation=0 only apply for the array. Thanks.

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Re: Pretty Print Dumper for Hash of Array
by svenXY (Deacon) on Sep 20, 2005 at 07:19 UTC
    Hi,
    as far as I can see it in the manpages for Data::Dumper, it is not possible to do it like this.
    You might have to write your own pretty-printer for that. Something along the lines of:
    #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $hoa = {a => [1,2], 'b'=>[1,3], c=> [2,0]}; foreach (keys %{$hoa}) { print "\t'$_' => [" . join(',', @{$hoa->{$_}}) . "],\n"; }
    prints:
    'c' => [2,0], 'a' => [1,2], 'b' => [1,3],
    Regards,
    svenXY
Re: Pretty Print Dumper for Hash of Array
by g0n (Priest) on Sep 20, 2005 at 09:12 UTC
    if this is closer to what you want:

    $HASH1 = { a => [ 1, 2 ], b => [ 1, 3 ], c => [ 2, 0 ] };

    I used Data::Dump::Streamer to output that, with the following code:

    use Data::Dump::Streamer; $hoa = {a => [1,2], 'b'=>[1,3], c=> [2,0]}; print Dump($hoa); print "\n";

    --------------------------------------------------------------

    $perlquestion=~s/Can I/How do I/g;

Re: Pretty Print Dumper for Hash of Array
by davidrw (Prior) on Sep 20, 2005 at 12:46 UTC
    You can (safely i think) clean the Data::Dumper output with regex's .. this is pretty close to what you want (might be easier though to split $s into an @lines array so that the first and last lines weren't touched by the substitutions...) :
    use Data::Dumper; use strict; use warnings; my $hoa = {a => [1,2], 'b'=>[1,3], c=> [2,0]}; my $s = Dumper $hoa; $s =~ s/^\s+//mg; $s =~ s/(?<!(\],| {))[\r\n]//sg; print $s; print "\n";
Re: Pretty Print Dumper for Hash of Array
by philcrow (Priest) on Sep 20, 2005 at 12:59 UTC
    You could use Data::HTMLDumper. I know that sounds odd, but it uses a grammar to parse Data::Dumper output. Instead of hard coding actions, it calls methods on an object whenever a production matches. By making the proper class to use in place of Data::HTMLDumper::Output, you can get pretty much any output you like. I like the module, but then I wrote it.

    Phil

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