in reply to Dump using Dumper

No, that's not what Dumper is for. The output of Dumper is specifically designed to be eval-uable as perl code.

But it's easy to get output like what you want. For example, you could write a function like the following:

sub dump_hash(\%) { my $hr = shift; for ( sort keys %$hr ) { print "$_ $hr->{$_}\n"; } } # use it like so: my %hash = ( ...whatever... ); dump_hash(%hash);

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