in reply to Data::Dumper in perl-only?

I think perhaps you'd be better working off of the stringified form of an object (IO::Handle=GLOB(0xb6050)), rather then it's ref() type (IO::Handle), or better yet, both (use ref(), then if it isn't a recognized type, stringification and a regex to get the blessing and basic type).

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Re: Re: Data::Dumper in perl-only?
by jhanna (Scribe) on Jan 24, 2002 at 09:12 UTC
    Ahhh... very interesting... See, this is why I need Perl Monks to enlighten me. I wouldn't have guessed that the stringified version gave more than ref() did. Thanks, theorbtwo!
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      Er. Actually you want to watch out that the objects dont have "" overloaded.

      In order to be totally safe you need to use 

      overload::StrVal($obj)

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      Also, instead of the above mentioned Data::Denter (which I dont like) I would recommend Data::Dump (which I do).

      Yves / DeMerphq
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      Data::PrettySimple

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        Ahhh.. Data::Dump is so much nicer than Data::Dumper. I like it too!
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