ehm, Dump() just shows it all very verbosely.. but it IS a cheap utility. Cheaper than any alternative, at least.
All you're seeing is that $x is a reference (RV 0x1bd1cc0) to the lvalue object (PVLV 0x1bc3388) which points to the string you've taken a substring of (PV 0x1bcd490), and the lvalue object has one piece of magic to point to the functions implementing extraction and replacement of substrings. That's obviously about as simple as it can get.
Just for fun, dump an array containing the relevant info:
Dump [\'the quick brown fox', 10, 5];
-
Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
-
Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
-
Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
-
Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
|
