Dearest Monks,

Let's say I've got an array of hashes like this: 

@AoH =
(
        { name => Adam, age => 0 },
        { name => Bob,  age => 10 },
        { name => Cat,  age => 20 }
);

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and I want to produce a 'quoted' comma separated list (a bit like CSV) of the names, i.e.:
'Adam','Bob','Cat'
can anyone offer more concise/efficient/elegant ways of doing it than this kind of approach, which does work, and is pretty concise, but ain't pretty:
$csv .= ",'$AoH[$_]{name}'" for (0..$#AoH);
$csv =~ s/^,//;

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Order of names doesn't matter.

Update: If there are no names (i.e. @AoH is empty), the output should be:
''
i.e. 2 single quotes, but my solution above doesn't meet that requirement (I've replied to Rolf below with some which do, though).

Thanks.
tel2

In reply to Make CSV list from values in AoH by tel2

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