NAME
BFD - Impromptu dumping of data structures for debugging purposes
SYNOPSIS
my $scary_structure1 = foo();
my $scary_structure2 = bar();
use BFD; d $scary_structure1, " hmmm ", $scary_structure2, ...;
....
DESCRIPTION
Allows for impromptu dumping of output to STDERR. Useful when you want
to take a peek at a nest Perl data structure by emitting (relatively)
nicely formatted output.
Basically,
use BFD;d $foo;
is shorthand for
use Data::Dumper;
local $Data::Dumper::Indent = 1;
local $Data::Dumper::Quotekeys = 0;
local $Data::Dumper::Terse = 1;
local $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys = 1;
warn Dumper( $foo );
I use this incantation soooo often that a TLA version is warranted.
YMMV.
LIMITATIONS
Uses Data::Dumper, which has varying degrees of stability and usefulness
on different versions of perl.
AUTHOR
Barrie Slaymaker <
[email protected]>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2003, Barrie Slaymaker. All Rights Reserved.
LICENSE
You may use this software under the terms of the GNU Pulic License, the
Artistic License, the BSD license, the MIT license, etc., etc., etc.
Good luck and God Speed.
