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| author | Jim Cromie <jcromie@cpan.org> | 2002-07-17 04:48:38 -0400 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-07-17 12:21:07 +0000 |
| commit | a991b806546fbc2a03a9dd5fe2b122e0230c793a (patch) | |
| tree | ab004b97dbf3055c19da5994e4a808334baa6929 /pod | |
| parent | ee269af270232fb90624eb307816fef116cdebed (diff) | |
| download | perl-a991b806546fbc2a03a9dd5fe2b122e0230c793a.tar.gz | |
patch against perldebug.pod
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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldebug.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldebug.pod b/pod/perldebug.pod index b63bc4ab62..dafa572840 100644 --- a/pod/perldebug.pod +++ b/pod/perldebug.pod @@ -84,9 +84,10 @@ where STDOUT may be redirected to. =item x [maxdepth] expr -Evaluates its expression in list context and dumps out the result -in a pretty-printed fashion. Nested data structures are printed out -recursively, unlike the real C<print> function in Perl. +Evaluates its expression in list context and dumps out the result in a +pretty-printed fashion. Nested data structures are printed out +recursively, unlike the real C<print> function in Perl. When dumping +hashes, you'll probably prefer 'x \%h' rather than 'x %h'. See L<Dumpvalue> if you'd like to do this yourself. The output format is governed by multiple options described under |