How can I print the contents of a hash in Perl?

Question

I keep printing my hash as # of buckets / # allocated. How do I print the contents of my hash?

Without using a while loop would be most preferable (for

Answer 1

The easiest way in my experiences is to just use Dumpvalue.

use Dumpvalue;
...
my %hash = { key => "value", foo => "bar" };
my $dumper = new DumpValue();
$dumper->dumpValue(\%hash);

Works like a charm and you don't have to worry about formatting the hash, as it outputs it like the Perl debugger does (great for debugging). Plus, Dumpvalue is included with the stock set of Perl modules, so you don't have to mess with CPAN if you're behind some kind of draconian proxy (like I am at work).