use strict; use warnings; # Enable special comments for debugging and reporting: use Smart::Comments; my $data_structure = { a => [ 1, 2, 3 ], b => [ { X => 1, Y => 2 }, { X => [ 1, 2, 3 ], Y => [ 4, 5, 6 ], Z => [ 7, 8, 9 ] }, ], }; # the following is a "smart comment" which causes a dump of the expression, using Data::Dumper: ### $data_structure