repr() for Perl?

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    >> Does Perl have something like Python's repr() function? 

    Mirco> Have a look at this:

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Thanks, I'm getting set up to try it just for the exercise.  I went with
John Lee's Data::Dumper suggestion simply because I already had it installed
and have neither String::Escape nor Inline::Python installed.

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