Further to what roboticus said, you can use Data::Dumper->Dump() or its faster C-coded equivalent ->Dumpxs(), which are not exported by default, to obtain a perhaps clearer output. This is more useful if inspecting multiple variables in one go.

johngg@abouriou ~/perl/Monks $ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -MData::Dumper
+ -E '
my %hash = ( Name => q{Fred}, Age => 28, Sex => q{M} );
print Data::Dumper->Dumpxs( [ \ %hash ], [ qw{ *hash } ] );'
%hash = (
          'Sex' => 'M',
          'Age' => 28,
          'Name' => 'Fred'
        );

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I hope this is of interest.

Cheers,

JohnGG

In reply to Re: Unable to create HASH type by johngg
in thread Unable to create HASH type by anjultyagi

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