Hi All,
I have the following problem.....

#I have two hashes

my %self;
my %abldcache;

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#I then populate the abldcache array and make self #reference it

$self{abldcache} = \%abldcache;

#I then use DataDumper to dump this to a file

print OUTFILE Data::Dumper->Dump([%self->{abldcache}], [qw(self->{abldcache})]);

#This works and gives me the following example of output...

$self->{abldcache} = {
                       'test1' => [],
                       'test2' => [
                                    'element1'                        
+                          'element2',
                                    'element3'                        
+                        ]
                     };

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#However, I want to produce this in the following format...

$self->{abldcache}->{'test1'} = [],
$self->{abldcache}->{'test2'} = [
                                  'element1'                          
+                        'element2',
                                  'element3'                          
+                      ]

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Could anyone tell me how to restructure my hashes so that Datadumper will give me this format???
Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Edited 2005-02-11 by Ovid

In reply to Using Data Dumper to represent 3 hashes by fatherlyons

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