Here is a little dumper I wrote some time ago:
my %h2 = (
'AAA' => 'aaa',
'BBB' => 'bbb',
'CCC' => {
'A1' => 'a1',
'B1' => 'b1',
'C1' => {
'A2' => 'a2',
'B2' => 'b2',
'C2' => 'c2END',
},
},
'DDD' => 'ddd',
);
sub ddump
{
my $ref = shift;
my $deep = shift||1;
for my $k ( sort keys %$ref )
{
if ( ref $ref->{$k} )
{
print "\t" x $deep."$k =>\n";
ddump( $ref->{$k}, $deep+1 );
}
else
{
print "\t" x ($deep)."$k => $ref->{$k}\n";
}
}
}
ddump( \%h2 );
Then I found a
column by
merlyn,
which gave me the idea of dumping into a
CGI table structure. The result:
use CGI qw /:all -nph/; #on Win32
$|++;
sub nest
{
my $it = shift;
ref $it ? complex_table($it) : $it
}
sub complex_table
{
my $hr = shift;
# could test here to ensure that $hr is indeed a hash ref.
table( { -border => 2, -bordercolor => 'green', -cellspacing => '0
+', },
map Tr( td( {-valign=>'top'}, $_ ), td( nest( $hr->{$_} ))), s
+ort keys %$hr
);
}
my %h1 = (); # feed your HoH here
print
start_html,
complex_table( \%h1 ),
end_html;
which produces a dump like this:
| AAA | aaa |
| BBB | bbb |
| CCC | |
| DDD | ddd |