I have improved this script a bit, it can recurse into symbol tables now.
I learned something new today. Internals::SvREADONLY can reset the readonly flag :)
my $table=shift||'';
$table.="::";
dumptable($table);
sub dumptable{
my $table=shift;
my $indent=shift||'';
while (my ($key,$value)=each %$table ){
print qq!$indent"$key":\n!;
if(defined(*{$value}{SCALAR}) and defined(${ *{$value}{SCALAR}})){
print "$indent\tSCALAR: ",${*{$value}{SCALAR}}, "\n";
}
if(defined( *{$value}{ARRAY} ) ) {
print "$indent\tARRAY: ", join ", ",@{*{$value}{ARRAY}}, "\n";
}
if(defined( *{$value}{HASH} ) ) {
if ($key =~ /::$/){
print "$indent\tSYMTAB:\n";
dumptable($value,"\t".$indent)
if (*{$value}{NAME} ne "main::");
}else{
print "\tHASH:\n";
while(my ($k, $v) = each %{ *{$value}{HASH} } ) {
print "$indent\t\t$k => $v,\n"
}
}
}
if(defined( *{$value}{CODE} ) ) {
print "$indent\tCODE: ",*{$value}{CODE},"\n";
};
if(defined( *{$value}{IO} ) ) {
print "$indent\tIO: ",*{$value}{IO},"\n";
};
print "\n"
}
}