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6 Data::Dumper::Concise - Less indentation and newlines plus sub
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10 use Data::Dumper::Concise;
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18 local $Data::Dumper::Terse = 1;
19 local $Data::Dumper::Indent = 1;
20 local $Data::Dumper::Useqq = 1;
21 local $Data::Dumper::Deparse = 1;
22 local $Data::Dumper::Quotekeys = 0;
23 local $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys = 1;
24 local $Data::Dumper::Trailingcomma = 1;
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30 { foo => "bar\nbaz", quux => sub { "fleem" } };
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53 (The trailing comma on the last element of an array or hash is enabled
54 by a new feature in Data::Dumper version 2.159, which was first
55 released in Perl 5.24. Using Data::Dumper::Concise with an older
56 version of Data::Dumper will still work, but you won't get those
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62 Also try out "DumperF" which takes a "CodeRef" as the first argument to
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74 This module always exports a single function, Dumper, which can be
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77 It exists, fundamentally, as a convenient way to reproduce a set of
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81 The principle guiding theme is "all the concision you can get while
82 still having a useful dump and not doing anything cleverer than setting
83 Data::Dumper options" - it's been pointed out to us that
84 Data::Dump::Streamer can produce shorter output with less lines of
85 code. We know. This is simpler and we've never seen it segfault. But
86 for complex/weird structures, it generally rocks. You should use it as
87 well, when Concise is underkill. We do.
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89 Why is deparsing on when the aim is concision? Because you often want
90 to know what subroutine refs you have when debugging and because if you
91 were planning to eval this back in you probably wanted to remove
92 subrefs first and add them back in a custom way anyway. Note that this
93 -does- force using the pure perl Dumper rather than the XS one, but
94 I've never in my life seen Data::Dumper show up in a profile so "who
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98 Yes, we know. Consider this module in the ::Tiny spirit and feel free
99 to write a Data::Dumper::Concise::ButWithExtraTwiddlyBits if it makes
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105 Data::Dumper::Concise::Sugar - provides Dwarn and DwarnS convenience
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108 Devel::Dwarn - shorter form for Data::Dumper::Concise::Sugar
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113 Data::Dump - prettiness oriented but not amazingly configurable
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115 Data::Dump::Streamer - brilliant. beautiful. insane. extensive.
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118 JSON::XS - no, really. If it's just plain data, JSON is a great option.
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121 mst - Matt S. Trout <mst@shadowcat.co.uk>
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124 frew - Arthur Axel "fREW" Schmidt <frioux@gmail.com>
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127 Copyright (c) 2010 the Data::Dumper::Concise "AUTHOR" and
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131 This library is free software and may be distributed under the same
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