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#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# recurse2txt routines
#
# version 1.02, 8-13-05, michael@bizsystems.com
#
#use strict;
#use diagnostics;
use overload;

# generate a unique signature for a particular hash
#
# Data::Dumper actually does much more than this, however, it
# does not stringify hash's in a consistent manner. i.e. no SORT
#
# The routine below, while not covering recursion loops, non ascii
# characters, etc.... does produce text that can be eval'd and is 
# consistent with each rendering.
#
sub Dumper {
  return "undef\n" unless defined $_[0];
  my $ref = ref $_[0];
  return "not a reference\n" unless $ref;
  unless ($ref eq 'HASH' or $ref eq 'ARRAY') {
    ($ref) = (overload::StrVal($_[0]) =~ /^(?:.*\=)?([^=]*)\(/);
  }
  my $p = {
	depth		=> 0,
	elements	=> 0,
  };
  bless $p,__PACKAGE__;
  my $data;
  if ($ref eq 'HASH') {
    $data = $p->hash_recurse($_[0],"\n");
  }
  elsif ($ref eq 'ARRAY') {
    $data = $p->array_recurse($_[0]);
  } else {
  return $ref ." unsupported\n";
  }
  $data =~ s/,\n$/;\n/;
  return $p->{elements} ."\t = ". $data;
}
  
# input:	pointer to hash, terminator
# returns:	data
#
sub hash_recurse {
  my($p,$ptr,$n) = @_;
  $n = '' unless $n;
  my $data = "{\n";
  foreach my $key (sort keys %$ptr) {
    $data .= "\t'". $key ."'\t=> ";
    $data .= _dump($p,$ptr->{$key},"\n");
  }
  $data .= '},'.$n;
}

# generate a unique signature for a particular array
#
# input:	pointer to array, terminator
# returns:	data
sub array_recurse {
  my($p,$ptr,$n) = @_;
  $n = '' unless $n;
  my $data = '[';
  foreach my $item (@$ptr) {
    $data .= _dump($p,$item);
  }
  $data .= "],\n";
}

# input:	self, item, append
# return:	data
#
sub _dump {
  my($p,$item,$n) = @_;
  $p->{elements}++;
  $n = '' unless $n;
  my $ref = ref $item;
  if ($ref eq 'HASH') {
    return tabout($p->hash_recurse($item,"\n"));
  }
  elsif($ref eq 'ARRAY') {
    return $p->array_recurse($item,$n);
  }
  elsif($ref eq 'SCALAR') {
    return q|\$SCALAR,|.$n;
  }
  elsif ($ref eq 'GLOB') {
    my $g = *{$item};
    return  "\\$g" .','.$n;
  }
  elsif(do {my $g = \$item; ref $g eq 'GLOB'}) {
    return "$item" .','.$n;
  }
  elsif($ref eq 'CODE') {
    return q|sub {'DUMMY'},|.$n;
  }
  elsif (defined $item) {
    return wrap_data($item) .','.$n;
  }
  else {
    return 'undef,'.$n;
  }
}

sub tabout {
  my @data = split(/\n/,shift);
  my $data = shift @data;
  $data .= "\n";
  foreach(@data) {
    $data .= "\t$_\n";
  }
  $data;
}

sub wrap_data {
  my $data = shift;
  return ($data =~ /\D/ || $data =~ /^$/)
	? q|'|. $data .q|'|
	: $data;
}

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