John M. Dlugosz has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I see that ActiveState's build includes three different modules for dumping data: Data::Dumper, Data::Dump, and Dumpvalue.

I've always seen Data::Dumper refered to here and in other articles. So what are the relative merits of the others, that are common enough to install by default?

—John

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Re: Data Dumping
by socketdave (Curate) on May 03, 2006 at 20:21 UTC
    Data::Dump says this: "The Data::Dump module provides a much simpler interface than Data::Dumper."

    Dumpvalue is included with Perl by default, but I've never used it. Data::Dumper seems to be the default, at least around here. I've not found a need for anything else.
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Re: Data Dumping
by kwaping (Priest) on May 03, 2006 at 21:30 UTC
    There's also Data::Dumper::Simple, which is pretty nifty. It tends to add a lot of wall-clock seconds to your program's execution though, so I recommend using it for debugging then removing it for production.

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    It's all fine and dandy until someone has to look at the code.
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Re: Data Dumping
by planetscape (Chancellor) on May 04, 2006 at 11:28 UTC
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