#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings FATAL => qw( all ); use Data::Compare; use Data::Dumper; # You can take out all instances of the subroutine 'line' to print what you want in those places. sub deep_data_compare { my ($tab, $old_data, $new_data, $data) = @_; my $old = $old_data; my $new = $new_data; my $compare = new Data::Compare($old, $new); if ($compare->Cmp == 0) { line($tab,$data) if $data; if (ref($old) eq 'HASH' && ref($new) eq 'HASH') { line($tab+1,'old to new'); for (keys %$old) { deep_data_compare($tab+2,$_,$$old{$_},$$new{$_}); } } # I have not figured out this part yet. # elsif (ref($old) eq 'ARRAY' && ref($new) eq 'ARRAY') { # } else { print Dumper($new); print Dumper($old); } } } sub rline { my ($tab,$line) = @_; return qq(\t) x $tab.qq($line\n); } sub line { print rline(@_); } deep_data_compare(0, \%old_hash, \%new_hash, 'widgets');