Hi dovah,
print is pretty much the simplest way to print a variable*. It is printed to the currently selected output handle.
What is your goal? Do you want the output to look a certain way, or the code to look or act a certain way?
There are modules to output the contents of complex variables / data structures, for example Data::Dump, as follows. Note the pp function by itself prints to STDERR instead of STDOUT, if you want the latter, you have to use print pp ....
use Data::Dump 'pp';
my $age = 25;
pp $age;
pp { foo => "bar" };
__END__
25
{ foo => "bar" }
There's also the core module Data::Dumper, which provides similar functionality.
* Update: Oh, oops, I see, you're asking about the debugger. Then Eily's response is more on point.
Hope this helps, -- Hauke D |