# ShowData()

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## Description

ShowData is an object-free function that returns a handle to the object at position Root/ShowData.

## Arguments

This function does not accept any arguments.

## Return

- **Handle**:\
  The function returns a handle to the ShowData object.

Example

This simple example prints the information of the ShowData object in the Command Line History using the Dump() function:

# Dump()

The **Dump()** function returns a string with information about the object, for instance, the name, class, path of the object, its properties, and children.

Learn more in the [Dump() topic](/grandma3/2-4/lua_object_dump/).

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| ```
return function ()
    -- The following prints the dump for the object for the show data
    Printf("=============== START OF DUMP ===============")
    ShowData():Dump()
    Printf("================ END OF DUMP ================")
end
``` |