From: Daniel Bretoi <lists@...>
Date: 2003-05-17T04:27:46+09:00
Subject: Re: p and perls Data::Dumper

I must have made an error while trying something ealier
because a secont attempt to do

fh = File.open ...
fh.puts "#{blah.inspect}"

works fine.

db

On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 04:19:20AM +0900, Daniel Bretoi wrote:
> p is extremely usefl, for debugging etc.
> 
> Perl has it's equivalent with Data::Dumper
> 
> Another thing I've found useful, is that's easy to record a 
> data structure to a file, then read it back, and getting 
> the information using eval.
> 
> In perl, I would do 
> print FILEHANDLE Dumper %somehash
> 
> and I could easily read back everything in the hash.
> 
> Is ther eany way of recording the output of 'p' ?
> 
> an explanation of how p knows what to print would also be helpful.
> how is that defined in a class? 
> 
> db
> 
> -- 
> May 16 	First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963
> May 17 	24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982
> May 17 	Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
> May 18 	Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay
> May 18 	Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804
> May 16 	Discovery Day in Cayman Islands
> May 17 	Constitution Day in Nauru and Norway
> May 18 	Flag Day in Haiti
> May 18 	Prayer Day in Denmark
> May 18 	Rick Wakeman is born in West London, England, 1949
> May 17*	Armed Forces Day (3rd Saturday of May)
> May 16*	Omer 49th day
> May 17*	Erev Shavout
> May 18*	Shavuot (Festival of Weeks; 50 days after Pesach)
> May 18*	Yizkor

-- 
May 16 	First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL), 1963
May 17 	24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. China, 1982
May 17 	Six SLA members killed in televised gun fight, 1974
May 18 	Battle of Las Piedras in Uruguay
May 18 	Napoleon crowned Emperor, 1804
May 16 	Discovery Day in Cayman Islands
May 17 	Constitution Day in Nauru and Norway
May 18 	Flag Day in Haiti
May 18 	Prayer Day in Denmark
May 18 	Rick Wakeman is born in West London, England, 1949
May 17*	Armed Forces Day (3rd Saturday of May)
May 16*	Omer 49th day
May 17*	Erev Shavout
May 18*	Shavuot (Festival of Weeks; 50 days after Pesach)
May 18*	Yizkor