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neat

 $

newstring

 = 
DBI::neat
(
string
, 
maxlength
)

Converts a string to one with quoted strings, null values shown as undef , and unprintable characters shown as ".".

string

The string to convert.

maxlength

The length at which to truncate the string with "...".


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