What is the equivalent of php's print_r() in AHK? Topic is solved

[DanielToward13]

I want to see human-readable information about an object. What are the keys, values and the structure. I exactly need the equivalent of PHP's print_r() function.

PHP Code:

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<pre>
<?php
$a = array ('a' => 'apple', 'b' => 'banana', 'c' => array ('x', 'y', 'z'));
print_r ($a);
?>
</pre>

Output:

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<pre>
Array
(
    [a] => apple
    [b] => banana
    [c] => Array
        (
            [0] => x
            [1] => y
            [2] => z
        )
)
</pre>

[tank]

PHP does many things for which there is no AHK equivilent. printing to the screen is one. I suppose your refering to how print_r can be used to dump objects and arrays
You would have to build this functionality as a script or function

[DanielToward13]

anyone who can help me with this script?

[HotKeyIt]

Try this:

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obj:={a:"apple", b:"banana", c:["x", "y", "z"]}
MsgBox % print_r(obj)
print_r(arr,indent:=""){
  if indent
    out.="Array`n" indent "(`n"
  for k,v in arr
    out.=indent "[" k "] => " (IsObject(v)?print_r(v,indent "`t"):v) "`n"
  return RTrim(out,"`n") (indent?"`n" indent ")":"")
}

[DanielToward13]

Thanks HotKeyIt. You have been a great help. I had some unknown objects that I couldn't figure them out. This helped me to retrieve them based on their structure.