[ruby-talk:11605] Re: Data::Dumper

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Ben Tilly wrote:
> To see what I mean, in Perl write a bit of code that
> looks like this:
>     use Data::Dumper;
>     $Data::Dumper::Indent = 1;
>     # Build up some complex data structure here...
>     $data = [qw(an anonymous array for starters)];
>     print Dumper $data;
> Play around with the data structure a little and think
> about how it looks.  You will probably be able to figure
> out how to write your objects prettily to this data
> structure about as easily as you can write to any
> flatfile scheme you come up with, but with this one
> parsing is trivial.

Do you wish to have an equivalent to Data::Dumper in Ruby?

I began writing one some time ago.

matju