Re: Data::Dumper(::Simple) is your friend

[itub]

I love Data::Dumper and use it all the time, but I think that's not the lesson here. The real lesson is that whenever you print out a value for debugging, you should use clear delimiters. I often do the following:

print "foo=($foo)\n";

You can use whatever delimiters you want, of course, and the best delimiter depends on the kind of values you expect.

[holli]

see also Unbelievably Obvious Debugging Tip and Re^2: Greatest programming mistakes and what to learn from.