Data::Dumper has two main uses: data persistence and debugging/inspecting objects. As far as I know, there isn’t anything that’s going to work exactly the same as Data::Dumper. I use pickle for data persistence. I use pprint to visually inspect my objects / debug.
The object dumper posted in sgmoore’s link: //Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. using System; using System.IO; using System.Collections; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Reflection; // See the ReadMe.html for additional information public class ObjectDumper { public static void Write(object element) { Write(element, 0); } public static void Write(object element, int depth) { Write(element, depth, Console.Out); … Read more