In need of a Dumper that has no pretentions to being anything else.

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Does anyone know of a module/function which will dump a perl data structure in a compact, human readable format that doesn't aspire to being a serialisation module?

1. Dumps what's in the structure without attempting to analyse it.

   I don't care if the array in two or more nested arrays are references to the same array. I just want to see what's in there.

   And I have no use for a module that takes up 20 times as much memory to dump the contents of a structure than the structure itself takes up.

2. Dumps the contents in a compact, but "structured" manner (read indented).
3. Produces sensibly compact output that looks roughly the way I might key it in--without trying to make the output evalable.

   Keeps nested structures on one line if it is practical. Preferably with a setable wrap limit that I can set to 1000 or 2000 if I wish--not hard coded to wrap at 72!

   ie. somthing like:

   { a => [ 1, 2, 3 ],
     b => [
            { X => 1, Y=> 2 }
            { X => [ 1, 2, 3], Y=> [ 4, 5, 6 ], Z => [ 7, 8, 9 ] },
     c => 'fred',
   }
   

   Not YAML!

   Preferably a function rather than an object.