c:\@Work\Perl>perl -MData::Dump -le "use warnings; use strict; ;; my %hash = ( 'accents' => 'utf-8', 'accounting' => 'money', 'bank' => 'money'. 'ing' => 'money', 'foo' => 'bar'. 'perls' => 'perl', ); dd \%hash; " { accents => "utf-8", accounting => "money", bank => "moneying", barperls => "perl", money => "foo", }