Printing package information

fmogavero has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

How can I print out all of the main:: keys and values.

print @main::INC will print the items in that array.

How can I print all of the other stuff in the main package?

Edit: chipmunk 2001-06-08

Comment on Printing package information Select or Download Code

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re: Pinting package information by mirod (Canon) on Jun 08, 2001 at 21:44 UTC
I would trust Data::Dumper for this: `perl -MData::Dumper -e 'print Dumper %main::';` or, for extra XML points (and ease of reprocessing the data): `perl -MData::DumpXML -e 'print Data::DumpXML::dump_xml( %main::)';`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Pinting package information by merlyn (Sage) on Jun 08, 2001 at 22:50 UTC
Or consider Data::Denter, which is a nice lightweight format that doesn't need to `eval` to get back into Perl. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]