BFD - Impromptu dumping of data structures for debugging purposes
my $scary_structure1 = foo(); my $scary_structure2 = bar(); use BFD; d $scary_structure1, " hmmm ", $scary_structure2, ...; ....
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 with filename and line number prefixed to each line.
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; my $msg = Dumper( $foo ); $msg =~ s/^/$where: /mg; warn $msg;
I use this incantation soooo often that a TLA version is warranted. YMMV.
Uses Data::Dumper, which has varying degrees of stability and usefulness on different versions of perl.
Barrie Slaymaker <barries@slaysys.com>
Copyright (c) 2003, Barrie Slaymaker. All Rights Reserved.
You may use this software under the terms of the GNU Public License, the Artistic License, the BSD license, or the MIT license.
Good luck and God Speed.
To install BFD, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm BFD
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install BFD
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.