in reply to print_r or var_dump?

OF course there ist ;-) 
use Data::Dumper;

# ...

%some_complicated_hash = ();

# fill hash with values...

print Dumper(\%some_complicated_hash);

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That should pretty much do what you want plus you get valid perl code from it.

Regards... Stefan
you begin bashing the string with a +42 regexp of confusion

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Re: Re: print_r or var_dump?
by mamut (Sexton) on Oct 09, 2001 at 18:15 UTC
    -=- MamuT -=-
    Another feature is if you write it to file.
    use Data::Dumper;

my $conf = (
foo => 'foofoo',
bar => 'barbar',
);

open CONF,"myconfig.conf";
print CONF Dumper($conf);
close CONF;

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    In another program you make it easy to load it back to Perl. 
    my $VAR1; #you must declare VAR1 from file if you use strict
open CONF,"myconfig.conf";
my $conf = eval (join "",<CONF>);

close CONF;

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    Now you have stored structure in $conf. Same you can do with perl object.

    Mamut
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