use Data::Dumper; sub show { my ($s) = @_ ; local $Data::Dumper::Indent = 0; local $Data::Dumper::Terse = 1; local $Data::Dumper::Useqq = 1; return Dumper($s); } #### print "similarity of ", show("$words1[$i]#1"), " and ", show("$words2[$j]#1"), " = $value\n";