autobox-dump autobox::dump pragma adds, via the autobox pragma, a method to normal expression (such as scalars, arrays, hashes, math, literals, etc.) that produces a human/perl readable representation of the value of that expression. use autobox::dump; my $foo = "foo"; print $foo->perl; #"foo"; print +(5*6)->perl; #30; my @a = (1..3); print @a->perl; #[ # 1, # 2, # 3 #]; print {a=>1, b=>2}->perl; #{ # "a" => 1, # "b" => 2 #}; INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Build.PL ./Build ./Build test ./Build install SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION Please report any bugs or feature requests to http://github.com/cowens/autobox-dump/issues After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc autobox::dump COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2009 Chas. J Owens IV This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.