Hi All,
I've been meaning to write a new data dumper for a while now. One of
those this that doesn't seem that big so keeps getting put off...
Having recently purchased "Learning Perl/Tk" and "Mastering Perl/Tk" to
realise that the later isn't a follow on book, but a replacement that
includes everything from Learning Perl/Tk and a load more. It seems I
have a spare book...
Putting the two together sounds to me like a quick code competition, to
the victor a free copy of Learning Perl/Tk! Either sent to your or given
at the next meet.
Requirements are pretty simple, just dump out a variable, following down
the levels of anonymous storage just like Data::Dumper does. But rather
than creating pretty dumps like:-
$var = {
array =>
[
{
key => 'value',
array2 =>
[
'one', 'two', 'three'
]
}
]
};
Creating nasty looking dumps like:-
$var->{array}->[0]->{key} = 'value';
$var->{array}->[0]->{array2}->[0] = 'one';
$var->{array}->[0]->{array2}->[0] = 'two';
$var->{array}->[0]->{array2}->[0] = 'three';
or
$var3->{array}[0]{key} = 'value';
$var3->{array}[0]{array2}[0] = 'one';
$var3->{array}[0]{array2}[1] = 'two';
$var3->{array}[0]{array2}[2] = 'three';
I wonder who can come up with the cleverest and quickest way of doing
it? (or if anyone tries at all?)
Lyle
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