Contributed by Anonymous Monk
on Sep 21, 2000 at 05:29 UTC
Q&A
> arrays
Description: How can I accept an array as input and print out the deep content of the array?
my @ary = (1, ["a", "b", [ ], [3, [0],5]);
Would like to print out:
(1, [a, b, [ ], [3, [0], 5])
(formatting fixed by editors) Answer: How to print the deep content of the array? contributed by chromatic If it doesn't need to be in that exact format, the built in Data::Dumper module is quite nice:
use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper(\@ary);
Otherwise, you'll have to loop through the elements of the array, checking them with ref and recursing when necessary. It's doable, but not terribly fun. | Answer: How to print the deep content of the array? contributed by princepawn If using Data::Dumper as above, you will not have a descriptive name for the array. While this is not a problem when printing one variable, it can be when printing more. So, instead:
@a=(1,2,3);
$b= [ 4,5,6 ];
use Data::Dumper;
Data::Dumper->Dump([\@a,$b],['a','b'])
| Answer: How to print the deep content of the array? contributed by ton Of course it's more fun to do it yourself. Try this:
my @ary = (1, ['a', 'b', [], [3, [0], 5]]);
print_deep_array(\@ary);
print "\n";
sub print_deep_array($)
{
my $arrRef = shift;
for (my $i = 0; $i < scalar(@$arrRef); ++$i) {
if (ref($arrRef->[$i]) eq 'ARRAY') {
print ', ' if ($i);
print '[';
print_deep_array($arrRef->[$i]);
print ']';
} else {
print ', ' if ($i);
print $arrRef->[$i];
}
}
print ' ' if (!scalar(@$arrRef));
}
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