c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le "use Data::Dumper; ;; my %hash; ;; $hash{'pizza'} = 12; $hash{'ref_to_hash'} = { 'one' => 'uno', 'two' => 'dos', }; ;; for my $hash_key (keys %hash) { print qq{'$hash{$hash_key}'}; print Dumper $hash{$hash_key}; } " '12' $VAR1 = 12; 'HASH(0x185b68)' $VAR1 = { 'one' => 'uno', 'two' => 'dos' };