Perl 5.10 on MacBook 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard).

Is there a way to auto-save and restore global variables, such as those found in Data::Dumper?

I envisage something like:

use Data::Dumper;
$Data::Dumper::blah = 0; # Set defaults
$Data::Dumper::fred = 'xyz';
...
if ($i_am_debugging_this_bit)
{
    SAVE(Data::Dumper);
    $Data::Dumper::blah = 1; # Override these for a bit
    $Data::Dumper::fred = 'nerd';
    ...
    RESTORE(Data::Dumper); # Put them all back
}

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In reply to Can I auto-save and restore global variables? by davehorsfall

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