Update: Well I've been chastised for perhaps reading more into the question than there really is - to answer the OP's question: $param_string =~ s/,\s*$//; will delete the trailing ','. This part: named parameter call in a method. lead me astray into thinking that OP is passing parms into a method or sub say like the Tk library needs or whatever. Maybe that is not true. Ok, fair enough.

Not exactly sure about what you are doing, but normally these hash => value pairs are passed as essentially an array of paired values - this is not a string. Don't confuse what the source code looks like with what the subroutine or method sees. To get $new-role-name to be translated into a value instead of this literal string, you just need "" instead of '' in the hash. Oh, this '=>' thingie is called a "fat comma" and as you can see below that is pretty much what happens, ie. works like a comma. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my %hash = (
  'description' => '$description',
  'new-role-name' => '$new-role-name',
  'role-name' => '$role-name',
);

x(%hash);  #this makes param,value pairs from %hash
print "\n";
my $abc = 99999;
x("value" => 12, "xyz" => "$abc");

sub x
{
   my @input = @_;
   print "array representation: @input\n";
   my %hash = @_;
   print "hash is:\n";
   foreach (keys %hash)
   {
      print "$_ => $hash{$_}\n";
   }   
}

__END__
prints:
array representation: role-name $role-name new-role-name $new-role-nam
+e description $description
hash is:
new-role-name => $new-role-name
role-name => $role-name
description => $description

array representation: value 12 xyz 99999
hash is:
value => 12
xyz => 99999

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In reply to Re: Transform hash elements into a string by Marshall
in thread Transform hash elements into a string by perlpal

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