Thanks…

Thanks for the starting point. I wanted a version that could skip printing out long strings (innerHTML/outerHTML) as well as functions. I’ve refactored your code to accomplish this. The new arguments are sMax and skipFunction. Strings will be truncated to sMax characters and functions will not be listed at all if skipFunction is true. I also show the depth of recursion at each new object, as well as string lengths prior to truncating. Hope somebody else finds it useful…

–dP

function print_r(x, max, sMax, skipFunction, sep, l) {
max = max || 10;
sMax = sMax || 25;
skipFunction = skipFunction || true;
sep = sep || ‘ ‘;
l = l || 0;
if (l > max) return “[Stopped at " + l + " levels]\n”;
var i, r = ”, t = typeof x, tab = ”;
if (x === null)
r += “(null)\n”;
else if (t == ‘object’) {
l++;
for (i = 0; i sMax)
x = x.substr(0, sMax) + ‘…’;
}
if (!(t == ‘function’ && skipFunction))
r += ‘(’ + t + slen + ‘) ‘ + x + “\n”;
}
return r;
}