One common usage of the Dumper function from the core Data::Dumper module is to quickly display the contents of hash variables for debugging purposes, as your code seems to indicate. For example, if your %usage is a simple hash, it is much simpler to view its contents using: 
print Dumper(\%usage);

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than to use a loop: 

for (keys %usage) { print "$_ = $usage{$_}\n" }

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The real power is if you have a more complicated data structure, such as a hash-of-arrays, a hash-of-hashes, or any arbitrarily deep structure (see perldsc). You don't need to know what the structure is: Dumper figures it out for you. There is no need for nesting loops just to print out the contents.

This is just one usage of the module (the one that your code uses). There are many more purposes and features which you can read about in Data::Dumper.

In reply to Re: Use of Data::Dumper by toolic
in thread Use of Data::Dumper by Parimala@123

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