I know I can list all of the package and lexcial variables in a given scope using Padwalker
's peek_our
and peek_my
, but how can I get the names and values of all of the global variables like $"
and $/
?
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use PadWalker qw/peek_our peek_my/;
use Data::Dumper;
our $foo = 1;
our $bar = 2;
{
my $foo = 3;
print Dumper in_scope_variables();
}
print Dumper in_scope_variables();
sub in_scope_variables {
my %in_scope = %{peek_our(1)};
my $lexical = peek_my(1);
#lexicals hide package variables
while (my ($var, $ref) = each %$lexical) {
$in_scope{$var} = $ref;
}
##############################################
#FIXME: need to add globals to %in_scope here#
##############################################
return \%in_scope;
}
You can access the symbol table, check out p. 293 of "Programming Perl"
Also look at Mastering Perl
Specifically:Mastering Perl: Symbol Tables and Typeglobs
Those variables you are looking for will be under the main namespace
A quick Google search gave me:
{
no strict 'refs';
foreach my $entry ( keys %main:: )
{
print "$entry\n";
}
}
You can also do
*sym = $main::{"/"}
and likewise for other values
If you want to find the type of the symbol you can do (from mastering perl):
foreach my $entry ( keys %main:: )
{
print "-" x 30, "Name: $entry\n";
print "\tscalar is defined\n" if defined ${$entry};
print "\tarray is defined\n" if defined @{$entry};
print "\thash is defined\n" if defined %{$entry};
print "\tsub is defined\n" if defined &{$entry};
}