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NAME
       Dumpvalue - provides screen dump of Perl data.

SYNOPSIS
         use Dumpvalue;
         my $dumper = new Dumpvalue;
         $dumper->set(globPrint => 1);
         $dumper->dumpValue(\*::);
         $dumper->dumpvars('main');
         my $dump = $dumper->stringify($some_value);

DESCRIPTION
       Creation

       A new dumper is created by a call

         $d = new Dumpvalue(option1 => value1, option2 => value2)

       Recognized options:

       "arrayDepth", "hashDepth"
           Print only first N elements of arrays and hashes.  If false, prints all the elements.

       "compactDump", "veryCompact"
           Change style of array and hash dump.  If true, short array may be printed on one line.

       "globPrint"
           Whether to print contents of globs.

       "dumpDBFiles"
           Dump arrays holding contents of debugged files.

       "dumpPackages"
           Dump symbol tables of packages.

       "dumpReused"
           Dump contents of "reused" addresses.

       "tick", "quoteHighBit", "printUndef"
           Change style of string dump.  Default value of "tick" is "auto", one can enable either double-quotish doublequotish
           quotish dump, or single-quotish by setting it to """ or "'".  By default, characters with high
           bit set are printed as is.  If "quoteHighBit" is set, they will be quoted.

       "usageOnly"
           rudimentally per-package memory usage dump.  If set, "dumpvars" calculates total size of strings
           in variables in the package.

       unctrl
           Changes the style of printout of strings.  Possible values are "unctrl" and "quote".

       subdump
           Whether to try to find the subroutine name given the reference.

       bareStringify
           Whether to write the non-overloaded form of the stringify-overloaded objects.

       quoteHighBit
           Whether to print chars with high bit set in binary or "as is".

       stopDbSignal
           Whether to abort printing if debugger signal flag is raised.

       Later in the life of the object the methods may be queries with get() method and set() method (which
       accept multiple arguments).

       Methods


       dumpValue
             $dumper->dumpValue($value);
             $dumper->dumpValue([$value1, $value2]);

           Prints a dump to the currently selected filehandle.

       dumpValues
             $dumper->dumpValues($value1, $value2);

           Same as " $dumper-"dumpValue([$value1, $value2]); >.

       stringify
             my $dump = $dumper->stringify($value [,$noticks] );

           Returns the dump of a single scalar without printing. If the second argument is true, the return
           value does not contain enclosing ticks.  Does not handle data structures.

       dumpvars
             $dumper->dumpvars('my_package');
             $dumper->dumpvars('my_package', 'foo', '~bar$', '!......');

           The optional arguments are considered as literal strings unless they start with "~" or "!", in
           which case they are interpreted as regular expressions (possibly negated).

           The second example prints entries with names "foo", and also entries with names which ends on
           "bar", or are shorter than 5 chars.

       set_quote
             $d->set_quote('"');

           Sets "tick" and "unctrl" options to suitable values for printout with the given quote char.
           Possible values are "auto", "'" and """.

       set_unctrl
             $d->set_unctrl('unctrl');

           Sets "unctrl" option with checking for an invalid argument.  Possible values are "unctrl" and
           "quote".

       compactDump
             $d->compactDump(1);

           Sets "compactDump" option.  If the value is 1, sets to a reasonable big number.

       veryCompact
             $d->veryCompact(1);

           Sets "compactDump" and "veryCompact" options simultaneously.

       set
             $d->set(option1 => value1, option2 => value2);

       get
             @values = $d->get('option1', 'option2');



perl v5.10.0                                     2007-12-18                                   Dumpvalue(3pm)