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NAME
    Acme::CPANModules::DumpingDataForDebugging - List of modules and tips
    when dumping data structures for debugging

VERSION
    This document describes version 0.002 of
    Acme::CPANModules::DumpingDataForDebugging (from Perl distribution
    Acme-CPANModules-DumpingDataForDebugging), released on 2023-10-29.

DESCRIPTION
    This list catalogs some of the modules you can you to dump your data
    structures for debugging purposes, so the modules will be judged mostly
    by the appropriateness of its output for human viewing (instead of other
    criteria like speed, footprint, etc).

ACME::CPANMODULES ENTRIES
    Data::Dumper
        Author: NWCLARK <https://metacpan.org/author/NWCLARK>

        Everybody knows this module and it's core so sometimes it's the only
        appropriate choice. However, the default setting is not really
        optimized for viewing by human. I suggest you tweak these before
        dumping your data:

        *   Set $Data::Dumper::Useqq to 1.

        By default, Data::Dumper quotes strings using single-quotes and does
        not quote things like "\n" and "\b" making it difficult to spot
        special characters.

    Data::Dump
        Author: GARU <https://metacpan.org/author/GARU>

        A data dumper that produces nicer Perl code output, with features
        like vertical alignment of "=>" when dumping hashes, compacting
        sequences like 1,2,3,4,5,6 to 1..6, compacting repeating characters
        in string like "ccccccccccccccccccccc" to ("c" x 21), and so on.

        It tries harder to produce Perl code that generates the original
        data structure, particularly with circular references. But with
        interlinked references like trees, Data::Dumper might be more
        helpful in showing you which references get mentioned where. For
        example this data:

         $tree = {children=>[{children=>[{}]}, {children=>[]}]};
         $tree->{children}[0]{parent}=$tree;
         $tree->{children}[1]{parent}=$tree;
         $tree->{children}[0]{children}[0]{parent} = $tree->{children}[0];

        Data::Dump will produce:

         do {
            my $a = {
              children => [
               { children => [{ parent => 'fix' }], parent => 'fix' },
               { children => [], parent => 'fix' },
             ],
           };
           $a->{children}[0]{children}[0]{parent} = $a->{children}[0];
           $a->{children}[0]{parent} = $a;
           $a->{children}[1]{parent} = $a;
           $a;
         }

        while Data::Dumper will produce:

         $VAR1 = {
                   'children' => [
                                   {
                                     'children' => [
                                                     {
                                                       'parent' => $VAR1->{'children'}[0]
                                                     }
                                                   ],
                                     'parent' => $VAR1
                                   },
                                   {
                                     'parent' => $VAR1,
                                     'children' => []
                                   }
                                 ]