in reply to Re: Transform hash elements into a string
in thread Transform hash elements into a string

I usually do it with join() too but write it out in plain code simply because I find map{} more confusing than it's worth:

my @pairs = (); while ( my ($key,$value) = each %hash) { push @pairs, $key . ' => ' . $value; } print join(', ', @pairs);

-- Time flies when you don't know what you're doing