Re^2: passing a variables name to a subroutine

[LANTI]

hmh ... seems not to work, if the dumped ref is a lexical variable in production-code. For the moment I live with this solution - not very elegant, because most of the time the identifying string will be same as the var-name:

say sdump($pout, '$pout');

sub sdump {
    my $ref = shift || croak('nothing to dump - missing ref');
    my $name = shift || 'n/a';
    my $depth = shift || 2;
    local $Data::Dumper::Maxdepth = $depth;
    return "Dump of $name:\n" . Dumper($ref);
}

Any idea, how to call it this way?

sdump('$pout');

[moritz]

hmh ... seems not to work, if the dumped ref is a lexical variable in production-code.

With which code did it not work? Did you try PadWalker as I suggested? How the the production code differ from the test code?