Johnson, Reginald (GTI) am Donnerstag, 28. September 2006 22:56: > I guess it > is a good practice to use data::dumper when you are developing programs.
What you should always use is (as others pointed out) the lines: use strict; use warnings; to improve detection of errors. Data::Dumper is useful if you are not shure how a data structure looks like ( hm, that should not occur in own programs ;-) ), or to check if it really looks as expected. And of course creating test scripts is always a good thing to answer the question: Does my program what it should do? See for example: Test::Simple Test::More > When I search CPAN in modules I see a quick snopsis of data dumper. Is > there an area in CPAN that has a more verbose listing of modules? I'm not sure what you mean here. You can use search.cpan.org to search modules, and after a click on the module name, the manual is displayed. Via this page you can (directly) reach the source code, and (indirectly) all files in the distribution, including the test scripts. regards Dani -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
