Perl由于有了引用,使得我们可以在不同的数据结构之间灵活的嵌套数据结构。
比方说,Hash的value可以是标量,也可以嵌套list,甚至还可以继续嵌套hash。
这样使得我们写代码的确方便了不少,但有的时候我们希望对这些复杂的数据结构
有个直观的感受,也就是说能够用perl的语法吧数据结构以及实际值表示出来。这在开发阶段尤其
有用!
正好Perl的模块Data::Dumper可以帮助我们干这件事。
Data::Dumper有面向对象和直接使用函数两种调用方法,
这里介绍直接使用函数的方式,简单好用,应该能够满足绝大多数需求:
Dumper接收的参数为一个标量的列表或者一个引用的列表。
my $a = "good";
my $b = "bad";
my @my_array = ("hello", "world", "123", 4.5);
my %some_hash = ("foo", 35, "bar", 12.4, 2.5, "hello",
"wilma", 1.72e30, "betty", "bye\n");
##使用函数
print Dumper($a);
print Dumper(\@my_array);
print Dumper(\%some_hash);
print Dumper((\%some_hash, \@my_array));
运行效果:
roger@roger-desktop:~/sandbox$ perl dump.pl
$VAR1 = 'good';
$VAR1 = [
'hello',
'world',
'123',
'4.5'
];
$VAR1 = {
'betty' => 'bye
',
'bar' => '12.4',
'wilma' => '1.72e+30',
'foo' => 35,
'2.5' => 'hello'
};
$VAR1 = {
'betty' => 'bye
',
'bar' => '12.4',
'wilma' => '1.72e+30',
'foo' => 35,
'2.5' => 'hello'
};
$VAR2 = [
'hello',
'world',
'123',
'4.5'
];
程序的输出会按照引用在list中的位置自动命名VAR[n].
# if debug flag open, dump key parameters from Launcher
if ( $debug ) {
use Data::Dumper;
$Data::Dumper::Sortkeys = 1; #Sort the keys in the output
$Data::Dumper::Deepcopy = 1; #Enable deep copies of structures
$Data::Dumper::Indent = 2; #Output in a reasonable style (but no array indexes)
$vmstaf->WriteTestLog( "DEBUG", "VMOTION : " .
"Dumper Key Parameters from Launcher." );
$vmstaf->WriteTestLog( "DEBUG", "VMOTION : " .
"Dumper :: HASH :: generalInfo" );
print Dumper(\%generalInfo);
$vmstaf->WriteTestLog( "DEBUG", "VMOTION : " .
"Dumper :: HASH :: vcInfo" );
print Dumper(\%vcInfo);
$vmstaf->WriteTestLog( "DEBUG", "VMOTION : " .
"Dumper :: HASH :: vmNameToEsx" );
print Dumper(\%vmNameToEsx);
$vmstaf->WriteTestLog( "DEBUG", "VMOTION : " .
"Dumper :: HASH :: esxToSwitches" );
print Dumper(\%esxToSwitches);
$vmstaf->WriteTestLog( "DEBUG", "VMOTION : " .
"Dumper :: HASH :: esxToDevs" );
print Dumper(\%esxToDevs);
}