in reply to basic Data::Dumper

Data::Dumper is really quite easy to use:
use Data::Dumper; print Dumper $some_var;
You said this was for a CGI script, if you have access to the error log, you can tail -f it and print to STDERR:
print STDERR Dumper %hash_of_hashes;
If you don't know what the error log is and would rather just print it to the browser, be sure and use pre tags:
print "<pre>\n", Dumper %hash_of_arrays, "</pre>\n";
Hope this helps.

Jeff

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(tye)Re: basic Data::Dumper
by tye (Sage) on May 17, 2001 at 19:05 UTC

    The output from Dumper %hash isn't nearly as easy to read as the output from Dumper \%hash.

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