How to dump a table to the screen

[AeroMaxxD]

Is there a lua equivalent to var_dump from https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.var-dump.php

Basically I wanting to know what's inside a table.

[Fizzlemizz]

/dump <table name>

but the table has to be global.

Otherwise, in code you could:

DevTools_Dump(table)

Edited after remembering DevTools had changed from it's original incarnation thanks to wardz and LudiusMaximus.

[wardz]

/dump table
/run DevTools_DumpCommand("table")
/run DevTools_Dump(table)


Edit; might need UIParentLoadAddOn("Blizzard_DebugTools") if not using /dump

[LudiusMaximus]

When I want to search recursively for strings in tables, I use this function:

local function PrintTable(t, indent)
  assert(type(t) == "table", "PrintTable() called for non-table!")
 
  local indentString = ""
  for i = 1, indent do
    indentString = indentString .. "  "
  end
 
  for k, v in pairs(t) do
    if type(v) ~= "table" then
      if type(v) == "string" then
        print(indentString, k, "=", v)
      end
    else
      print(indentString, k, "=")
      print(indentString, "  {")
      PrintTable(v, indent + 2)
      print(indentString, "  }")
    end
  end
end
 
PrintTable(tableToPrint, 1)

[SDPhantom]

The built-in DevTools also supplies a /tableinspect command that allows you to navigate tables in an inspection window.