NAME

HISTORY - public release history for Data::Dumper

DESCRIPTION

2.03beta (26 August 1996)

Fixed Dumpxs. It was appending trailing nulls to globnames. (reported by Randal Schwartz <merlyn@teleport.com>).

Calling the Indent() method on a dumper object now correctly resets the internal separator (reported by Curt Tilmes <curt@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov>).

New Terse option to suppress the 'VARn = ' prefix introduced. If the option is set, they are output only when absolutely essential.

The Useqq flag is supported (but not by the XSUB version yet).

Embedded nulls in keys are now handled properly by Dumpxs.

Dumper.xs now use various integer types in perl.h (should make it compile without noises on 64 bit platforms, although I haven't been able to test this).

All the dump methods now return a list of strings in a list context.

2.02beta (13 April 1996)

Non portable sprintf usage in XS code fixed (thanks to Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>).

2.01beta (10 April 1996)

Minor bugfix (single digit numbers were always getting quoted).

2.00beta (9 April 1996)

Dumpxs is now the exact XSUB equivalent of Dump. The XS version is 4-5 times faster.

require 5.002.

MLDBM example removed (as its own module, it has a separate CPAN reality now).

Fixed bugs in handling keys with wierd characters. Perl can be tripped up in its implicit quoting of the word before '=>'. The fix: Data::Dumper::Purity, when set, always triggers quotes around hash keys.

Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de> pointed out that handling octals is busted. His patch added.

Dead code removed, other minor documentation fixes.

1.23 (3 Dec 1995)

MLDBM example added.

Several folks pointed out that quoting of ticks and backslashes in strings is missing. Added.

Ian Phillips <ian@pipex.net> pointed out that numerics may lose precision without quotes. Fixed.

1.21 (20 Nov 1995)

Last stable version I can remember.