NAME

Data::DumperAbbrev - Data dumper for tables and simple values.

SYNOPSIS

        use Data::DumperAbbrev;
        $dumper = Data::DumperAbbrev->new();

        # concise output
        print $dumper->dump($arrayRef)
        print $dumper->dump($hashRef)
        print $dumper->dump($string)

REQUIRES

Perl5.005, Data::Dumper, Data::Handy

DESCRIPTION

This Data::DumperAbbrev class uses standard Data::Dumper but provides a specialized method to dump abbreviated data structures. It goes beyond the terse option of Data::Dumper by limiting array and hash dumps to a certain number of elements.

CLASS VARIABLES

VERSION: Current version of this class.

CONSTRUCTOR

new

PACKAGE->new(abbreviate)

Creates a Dumper object.

Parameters:: abbreviate - optional; boolean indicating to abbreviate lists or not
Returns:: a newly created object

METHODS

Quick Index: dump, setAbbreviate

setAbbreviate

OBJ->setAbbreviate(abbreviateState)

Sets the boolean abbreviate property of the Dumper object.

Parameters:: abbreviateState - boolean indicating to abbreviate tables and hashes

dump

OBJ->dump(item)

Returns simply formatted copy of the item, possibly abbreviated.

Item	Returns...
Undefined	UNDEF_NAME property (default "(null)")
Empty string	EMPTY_NAME property (default "--")
String	string unchanged
Array reference	Comma-separated list of array elements.
Hash reference	Comma-separated list of hash elements, enclosed i n braces.

If the dumper object has the abbreviate property true, then, for array and hash references, just the first 3 elements in the structure are used.

Parameters:: item - any scalar object
Returns:: simply formatted copy of the item.

BUGS

None

AUTHOR

Michael Sorens

VERSION

$Revision: 8 $ $Date: 2006-12-19 21:13:43 -0800 (Tue, 19 Dec 2006) $

SINCE

CleanCode 0.9