would something like this work?

my $a = "testA";
my $b = "testB";
my $c = "testC";
my %combined = ( $a => "a=$a",
                 $b => "b=$b",
                 $c => "c=$c" );

my $combined = join ' ', $combined{$a}, $combined{$b}, $combined{$c};
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