Am I an idiot, or what? I'm trying to dump a simple hash. I thought it would be easy, just call some nice routine that will output all the key/value pairs in the hash. So, I pick up my handy _Perl in a Nutshell_ book (quite nice actually) and they have a description of Data::Dumper. I look at "simple procedural interface" and enter: 
%hash = {this => "one", that => two};
print Dumper (%hash);

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Which gives a nice thing indicating that the argument is a hash (duh!).

I'm basically a "printf" kind of debugger. It works quite well, and I've used this in Perl. This SHOULD be a simple task without TOO much trouble. Someone must know a SIMPLE solution that will print out the key/value pairs kinda like:

this => "one", that => "two"

Of course I could write a routine (a bother!) that will iterate thru the keys, and print the values, but HASN'T someone done this already, or haven't I looked at the right place. Argggggg!!

The next lesson will be writing a "hello world" program :-)

In reply to dumping a hash by herby1620

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