Hello Monks,

I've been searching for a solution to dump the contents of an entire hashref (HoH) - returned from a dbi fetchall_hashref into a scalar (not a $hashref).

Best attempt I could come up with is this:

my $param = join(q{, }, map{qq{$_ => $$ref2{$_}}} keys %$ref2);

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but it's returning:

4 => HASH(0x5755668), 3 => HASH(0x55ddbb8), 2 => HASH(0x574e670), 9 =>
+ HASH(0x5767a18), 11 => HASH(0x5527fd8), 1 => HASH(0x574f230), 8 => H
+ASH(0x5639d48), 6 => HASH(0x574c6c8), 7 => HASH(0x54fae40), 12 => HAS
+H(0x5747fc8), 5 => HASH(0x562be30), 13 => HASH(0x57633d0), 10 => HASH
+(0x57648f8)

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Or is it possible to use data::dumper to put contents into a scalar? As always, thanks for helping me to figure this out!
- 3dbc

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