Can I haz Perl_pv_pretty () and Perl_pv_escape () in Devel::PPPort? $ grep -P '\bpv_' ppport.h pv_display||5.006000| pv_escape||5.009004| pv_pretty||5.009004| pv_uni_display||5.007003| $ grep PERL_PV perl.h #define PERL_PV_ESCAPE_QUOTE 0x0001 #define PERL_PV_PRETTY_QUOTE PERL_PV_ESCAPE_QUOTE #define PERL_PV_PRETTY_ELLIPSES 0x0002 #define PERL_PV_PRETTY_LTGT 0x0004 #define PERL_PV_ESCAPE_FIRSTCHAR 0x0008 #define PERL_PV_ESCAPE_UNI 0x0100 #define PERL_PV_ESCAPE_UNI_DETECT 0x0200 #define PERL_PV_ESCAPE_ALL 0x1000 #define PERL_PV_ESCAPE_NOBACKSLASH 0x2000 #define PERL_PV_ESCAPE_NOCLEAR 0x4000 #define PERL_PV_ESCAPE_RE 0x8000 #define PERL_PV_PRETTY_NOCLEAR PERL_PV_ESCAPE_NOCLEAR #define PERL_PV_PRETTY_DUMP PERL_PV_PRETTY_ELLIPSES|PERL_PV_PRETTY_QUOTE #define PERL_PV_PRETTY_REGPROP PERL_PV_PRETTY_ELLIPSES|PERL_PV_PRETTY_LTGT|PERL_PV_ESCAPE_RE -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, SuSE 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Next