Re: Best way to inspect the contents of a big variable?

Thanks, that works perfectly!



"Robert Ginda" <rginda@hacksrus'com> wrote in message
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>
> The best way to view something that large would probably be to dump the
> value to a file and look at it in an editor.  To do that, you'll need to
> do a few /evald commands, which execute script in the context of Venkman
> itself.
>
> First, get the variable you want into a $[n] variable, by evaling it
> while stopped...
> /eval document.getElementById("apis").innerHTML
>  > $[0] = [string] 73078 characters
>
> (you don't actually need the /eval there, since it's the default command)
>
> Then, use a few /evalds to create a file and spew your data...
> /evald myfile = fopen("/home/rginda/foo.html", ">");
> /evald myfile.write($[0].stringValue);
> /evald myfile.close();
>
> It wouldn't be very hard to wrap this functionality in a plugin (or, at
> patch to venkman itself), to add a ``/save-expr <file-name>
> <expression>'' command.
>
> If you really wanted to dump the contents of that variable to the
> Interactive Session window, you could just increase the maxStringLength
> preference with the /pref command.  It's 4000 by default.  To change it
> to 75000, you'd type /pref maxStringLength 75000.  I don't know how long
> it'll take to render that many characters in the Interactive Session
> view though, so I wouldn't recommend it.
>
>
> Rob.
>
>
> Paul Rempel wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm using Venkman and find it incredibly useful.  But i'm not sure how
to
> > "see" what is inside of certain variables that contain a lot of data.
> >
> > For example, my web page uses javascript to pupulate a <div> tag.  I
can't
> > see whats in it by using View-->Source since it only exists in memory.
> >
> > I put a breakpoint in my .js file using Venkman, and then in the
debugger
> > console, I type:
> >
> > document.getElementById("apis").innerHTML
> >
> > but it doesn't show me the contents, it only says:
> >
> >  $[0] = [string] 73078 characters
> >
> > What if i want to see what those 73078 characters actually are????
Adding
> > it as a watch produces the same problem.
> >
> >
> > I tried sending it to an alert() dialog box, but it doesn't all fit and
you
> > can't copy and paste from those dialog boxes either.
> >
> >
> > Any ideas???
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Paul
> >
> >
>