What is Perl's equivalent to PHP's print_r()?

Question

I find print_r in PHP extremely useful, but wonder if there is anything remotely equivalent in Perl?

Answer 1

An alternative to Data::Dumper that does not produce valid Perl code but instead a more skimmable format (same as the x command of the Perl debugger) is Dumpvalue. It also consumes a lot less memory.

As well, there is Data::Dump::Streamer, which is more accurate in various edge and corner cases than Data::Dumper is.