Data Dumping


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Data Dumping

by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor)

on May 03, 2006 at 20:11 UTC ( [id://547256]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml )

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John M. Dlugosz has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I see that ActiveState's build includes three different modules for dumping data: Data::Dumper, Data::Dump, and Dumpvalue.

I've always seen Data::Dumper refered to here and in other articles. So what are the relative merits of the others, that are common enough to install by default?

—John

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Re: Data Dumping by socketdave (Curate) on May 03, 2006 at 20:21 UTC
Data::Dump says this: "The Data::Dump module provides a much simpler interface than Data::Dumper." Dumpvalue is included with Perl by default, but I've never used it. Data::Dumper seems to be the default, at least around here. I've not found a need for anything else.	[reply]
Re: Data Dumping by kwaping (Priest) on May 03, 2006 at 21:30 UTC
There's also Data::Dumper::Simple, which is pretty nifty. It tends to add a lot of wall-clock seconds to your program's execution though, so I recommend using it for debugging then removing it for production. --- It's all fine and dandy until someone has to look at the code.	[reply]
Re: Data Dumping by planetscape (Chancellor) on May 04, 2006 at 11:28 UTC
You may wish to have a look at Re: How can I visualize my complex data structure?, where I provide a comparison of some data dumping modules. HTH, planetscape	[reply]

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