I'll look into the Dumper function itself when I get the chance.

The code realy does produce the output given. Talking to a college we came to the conclusion that the fact that $sb is actualy a class object rather than a simple data object might be causing confusion. Certainly Simon's solution does help convince it that it should be treating it as an array of arrays.

I'll try the code you gave on the server in question tomorrow if I get time. Its a Linux box running perl 5.5 or 5.6 I dont remember the exact version.

Thanks for your suggestions though.

---If it doesn't fit use a bigger hammer

In reply to Re: Re (tilly) 1: Data::Dumper Dilema by vagnerr
in thread Data::Dumper Dilema by vagnerr

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