On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 2:33 PM, anthony brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the reply, I always thought that Dumper is used for debugging > purposes, I will look at it deeper. Btw, what you mean by cyclic data ? snip
Data::Dumper is often used to display the contents of a data structure during debugging for precisely the same reason you want to use it: it produces a string representation of the data structure. Cyclic (aka self-referential) data structures contain one or more references to themselves. The simplest example would be a scalar that contains a reference to itself: my $s; $s = \$s; Data::Dumper can handle them (if they aren't too large), but it can eat a lot of memory and cpu doing so. -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
