I'm having loads of fun with perl on Pocket_PC from General Paranoyaxc Software and the PerlIDE there too. Of course, Perl is stripped a bit bare for the environment. One of the things I was wanting was Data::Dumper. Silly me, I thot, "Why not write a dumbed down version that's perl only." Trouble is, I couldn't figure how to generically de-ref a blessed object. This is probably impossible? I'm assuming no use strict. 
# NOTE: THIS IS BUSTED, but interesting...
sub DDumper {
 my($v,$i)=@_; # v=what we're dumping, i=indent
 $i="\n" unless $i;
 $i.=' ';
 my $r=ref($v);
 my $s=''; # s is the string we'll return when done
 if($r eq HASH) {
  $s.= "{ ";
  for (keys %$v) {
   $s.= Dumper($_,$i)." => ".Dumper($v->{$_},$i).",$i";
  }
  $s.= " }$i";
 } elsif($r eq ARRAY) {
  $s.= "[ ";
  for ( @$v) {
   $s.= Dumper($_,$i).",$i";
  }
  $s.= " ]$i";
 } elsif($r) {
  $s.= "bless( ".Dumper(%{$v},$i).", '$r') $i";
 } else {
  $s.= "'$v' ";
 }
 $s;
}

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For discussion sake, let's assume all blessed objects are hashes. Does that help?

This snippit recurses endlessly on blessed objects (I think) and has the curious property of doubling square brackets and doing goofy things with quotes and commas in hashes.

Well, it was an interesting recursive diversion...

j

In reply to Data::Dumper in perl-only? by jhanna

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