Re: What is the best way to dump data structures to logfiles?

This is for day-by-day operations to support user problems, and figure out what happened to the system during determined interesting events.

For that purpose I would focus on readability, which is not something Data::Dumper (or Data::Dump::Streamer) provide. For support tasks you need reports, and IMHO there's nothing better yet for that than format, formline and write (you could use Text::Template or Template but maybe you don't want their overhead).

It might be a tedious task to generate the perlform reports in the first place, but that pays off since you have a better oversight of your data. You can even enrich those reports with ANSI colours to browse them in a colour capable terminal with e.g. less -R.

--shmem

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

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