Definitely check out Data::Dumper;
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 9:55 PM
To: Tim Johnson
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Is there a way to print out the contents of a variable in hum
an readable format?
> Could you give an example of what you mean? I don't use PHP, but I
> can think of about three functions that MIGHT be what you're looking
> for.
Well for instance print_r does the following:
@array = (1,2,3,4);
print_r(@array);
produces:
ARRAY
(
[0] = 1,
[1] = 2,
[2] = 3,
[3] = 4
)
While:
%hash = ('path' => 'name', 'foo' => 'bar');
print_r(%hash);
Produces:
HASH
(
'path' => 'name',
'foo' => 'bar'
);
And print_ring a scalar produces:
0 (or whatever)
And doing the same to a resource or filehandle produces something like:
RESOURCE #1
Thanks in advance,
-Dan
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