Oh, by the way, it takes a hash and generates the perl to re-create it :)

As long as the value doesn't contain dollar signs or at-signs or backslashes, since you used qq instead of q. Oh, and the key can't contain any single quotes.

I agree with the other poster: don't reinvent Data::Dumper without understanding everything it does first.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker