Dumpvalue - provides screen dump of Perl data.

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If false, prints all the elements.</p> </dd> <dt id="compactDump,-veryCompact"><a class="permalink" href="#compactDump,-veryCompact">#</a><a id="compactDump1"></a><a id="compactDump-veryCompact"></a><code>compactDump</code>, <code>veryCompact</code></dt> <dd> <p>Change style of array and hash dump. If true, short array may be printed on one line.</p> </dd> <dt id="globPrint"><a class="permalink" href="#globPrint">#</a><code>globPrint</code></dt> <dd> <p>Whether to print contents of globs.</p> </dd> <dt id="dumpDBFiles"><a class="permalink" href="#dumpDBFiles">#</a><code>dumpDBFiles</code></dt> <dd> <p>Dump arrays holding contents of debugged files.</p> </dd> <dt id="dumpPackages"><a class="permalink" href="#dumpPackages">#</a><code>dumpPackages</code></dt> <dd> <p>Dump symbol tables of packages.</p> </dd> <dt id="dumpReused"><a class="permalink" href="#dumpReused">#</a><code>dumpReused</code></dt> <dd> <p>Dump contents of "reused" addresses.</p> </dd> <dt id="tick,-quoteHighBit,-printUndef"><a class="permalink" href="#tick,-quoteHighBit,-printUndef">#</a><a id="tick"></a><a id="tick-quoteHighBit-printUndef"></a><code>tick</code>, <code>quoteHighBit</code>, <code>printUndef</code></dt> <dd> <p>Change style of string dump. Default value of <code>tick</code> is <code>auto</code>, one can enable either double-quotish dump, or single-quotish by setting it to <code>"</code> or <code>'</code>. By default, characters with high bit set are printed <i>as is</i>. If <code>quoteHighBit</code> is set, they will be quoted.</p> </dd> <dt id="usageOnly"><a class="permalink" href="#usageOnly">#</a><code>usageOnly</code></dt> <dd> <p>rudimentary per-package memory usage dump. If set, <code>dumpvars</code> calculates total size of strings in variables in the package.</p> </dd> <dt id="unctrl"><a class="permalink" href="#unctrl">#</a>unctrl</dt> <dd> <p>Changes the style of printout of strings. Possible values are <code>unctrl</code> and <code>quote</code>.</p> </dd> <dt id="subdump"><a class="permalink" href="#subdump">#</a>subdump</dt> <dd> <p>Whether to try to find the subroutine name given the reference.</p> </dd> <dt id="bareStringify"><a class="permalink" href="#bareStringify">#</a>bareStringify</dt> <dd> <p>Whether to write the non-overloaded form of the stringify-overloaded objects.</p> </dd> <dt id="quoteHighBit"><a class="permalink" href="#quoteHighBit">#</a>quoteHighBit</dt> <dd> <p>Whether to print chars with high bit set in binary or "as is".</p> </dd> <dt id="stopDbSignal"><a class="permalink" href="#stopDbSignal">#</a>stopDbSignal</dt> <dd> <p>Whether to abort printing if debugger signal flag is raised.</p> </dd> </dl> <p>Later in the life of the object the methods may be queries with get() method and set() method (which accept multiple arguments).</p> <h2 id="Methods"><a class="permalink" href="#Methods">#</a>Methods</h2> <dl> <dt id="dumpValue"><a class="permalink" href="#dumpValue">#</a>dumpValue</dt> <dd> <pre><code>$dumper->dumpValue($value); $dumper->dumpValue([$value1, $value2]);</code></pre> <p>Prints a dump to the currently selected filehandle.</p> </dd> <dt id="dumpValues"><a class="permalink" href="#dumpValues">#</a>dumpValues</dt> <dd> <pre><code>$dumper->dumpValues($value1, $value2);</code></pre> <p>Same as <code>$dumper->dumpValue([$value1, $value2]);</code>.</p> </dd> <dt id="stringify"><a class="permalink" href="#stringify">#</a>stringify</dt> <dd> <pre><code>my $dump = $dumper->stringify($value [,$noticks] );</code></pre> <p>Returns the dump of a single scalar without printing. If the second argument is true, the return value does not contain enclosing ticks. Does not handle data structures.</p> </dd> <dt id="dumpvars"><a class="permalink" href="#dumpvars">#</a>dumpvars</dt> <dd> <pre><code>$dumper->dumpvars('my_package'); $dumper->dumpvars('my_package', 'foo', '~bar$', '!......');</code></pre> <p>The optional arguments are considered as literal strings unless they start with <code>~</code> or <code>!</code>, in which case they are interpreted as regular expressions (possibly negated).</p> <p>The second example prints entries with names <code>foo</code>, and also entries with names which ends on <code>bar</code>, or are shorter than 5 chars.</p> </dd> <dt id="set_quote"><a class="permalink" href="#set_quote">#</a>set_quote</dt> <dd> <pre><code>$d->set_quote('"');</code></pre> <p>Sets <code>tick</code> and <code>unctrl</code> options to suitable values for printout with the given quote char. Possible values are <code>auto</code>, <code>'</code> and <code>"</code>.</p> </dd> <dt id="set_unctrl"><a class="permalink" href="#set_unctrl">#</a>set_unctrl</dt> <dd> <pre><code>$d->set_unctrl('unctrl');</code></pre> <p>Sets <code>unctrl</code> option with checking for an invalid argument. Possible values are <code>unctrl</code> and <code>quote</code>.</p> </dd> <dt id="compactDump"><a class="permalink" href="#compactDump">#</a>compactDump</dt> <dd> <pre><code>$d->compactDump(1);</code></pre> <p>Sets <code>compactDump</code> option. If the value is 1, sets to a reasonable big number.</p> </dd> <dt id="veryCompact"><a class="permalink" href="#veryCompact">#</a>veryCompact</dt> <dd> <pre><code>$d->veryCompact(1);</code></pre> <p>Sets <code>compactDump</code> and <code>veryCompact</code> options simultaneously.</p> </dd> <dt id="set"><a class="permalink" href="#set">#</a>set</dt> <dd> <pre><code>$d->set(option1 => value1, option2 => value2);</code></pre> </dd> <dt id="get"><a class="permalink" href="#get">#</a>get</dt> <dd> <pre><code>@values = $d->get('option1', 'option2');</code></pre> </dd> </dl> </div> <div id="footer"> <p>Perldoc Browser is maintained by Dan Book (<a href="https://metacpan.org/author/DBOOK">DBOOK</a>). 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