If you’re ever writing a Perl script that contains fairly complicated data structures (multi-dimensional arrays, hashes of arrays, etc), or you’re debugging code that contains complicated objects, it may be helpful to view the current state of those data structures in their entirety.
This is easy to do with Data::Dumper. Although the features the module provides are fairly complex, it’s easy to use it to just print out the contents of something. Do do this, you’ll first need to import the module with ‘use Data::Dumper;’. Then, to dump the data in an array(for example), simply do ‘print Dumper(@array)’. Continue reading “Using the Data::Dumper module to debug your Perl scripts”