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

I use Data::Dump, it's output is a bit cleaner than Data::Dumper's (no $VAR1), it provides quick shortcuts and it also tries to DTRT, i.e. it will print to STDERR when called in void context and return the dump string when not.