As another way of dumping, I've been using pp() in Data::Dump lately. It gives a more compact display but basically same idea as Data::Dumper. example follows...

use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dump qw(pp);

my %hash = (0 => 'a', 1 => 'b', 2 => 'c');
print '%hash=',pp(\%hash),"\n";

__END__
Prints:
%hash={ "0" => "a", 1 => "b", 2 => "c" }
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