NAME

Data::Delete - Delete keys with undefined or empty string values in a deep data structure

SYNOPSIS

    use Data::Delete;
    my $dd = Data::Delete->new;
    my $deep_data_structure = {
        id            => 4,
        last_modified => undef,
        sections      => [
            {
                content => 'h1. Ice Cream',
                class   => 'textile'
            },
            {
                content => '# Pie',
                class   => ''
            },
        ],
    };
    use Data::Dumper;
    print Dumper $dd->delete($deep_data_structure);

# results in:

    {
      id => "4",
      sections => [
        {
          content => 'h1. Ice Cream',
          class   => 'textile'
        },
        {
          content => "# Pie"
        }
      ]
    }

DESCRIPTION

A module for when you want to remove HashRef keys when the value is undefined or an empty string.

debug_delete

Turn on/off debugging

will_delete_empty_string

Choose to remove empty string hash values

METHODS

delete

    Signature: (HashRef|ArrayRef)
      Returns: The data structure with undefined hash values, and optionally, 
               empty string hash values removed 

AUTHORS

Mateu X Hunter hunter@missoula.org

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2015, Mateu X Hunter

LICENSE

You may distribute this code under the same terms as Perl itself.