You can manipulate the formatting of Data::Dumper's output. It may not be exactly the format you're wanting though, but it may be closer than the default is. The POD for that module explains how to:
- Control the style of indentation.
- Specify a string to be prefixed to every line of output.
- Change the prefix of variable names in output.
- Adjust output to a more "terse" format (maybe close to what you want).
Update: Here is an example of how close you can get with Data::Dumper:
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
my %hash = qw/this 1 that 2 those 3 them 4/;
$Data::Dumper::Terse++;
$Data::Dumper::Quotekeys = 0;
$Data::Dumper::Indent = 1;
print Dumper \%hash;
__OUTPUT__
{
those => '3',
them => '4',
that => '2',
this => '1'
}
Without the formatting overrides, here is what you would have gotten:
$VAR1 = {
'those' => '3',
'them' => '4',
'that' => '2',
'this' => '1'
};
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