I have a Perl hash that I need to write to JSON and to CSV formats.

A print Dumper( \%formdata ) of my hash looks like this.

    $VAR1 = {
              'SPRequest' => {
                                  'xrelease' => '13038',
                                  'macaddr' => '47:00:11:22:00:30',
                                  'name' => 'localhost',
                                  'description' => 'demo'
                                },
              '.submit' => bless( do{\(my $o = 1)}, 'JSON::PP::Boolean
+' ),
              'class' => 'SPRequest',
              '22406' => {
                           'win.profile' => 'production',
                           'win.os_version' => 'standard',
                           'win.os_part_size' => '1'
                         }
            };
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Here is the snipplet of code I use to produce my json file.

my $form_data_file = "/tmp/${hostname}_${macaddr}.json";
open FH, ">$form_data_file" or die "Could not open $form_data_file. :$
+!\n";
print FH to_json( \%formdata, {pretty=>1} );
close FH;
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I am able to output my JSON to a file which looks like this:

[red@tools-dev1 psong]$ cat /tmp/localhost_47-00-11-22-00-30.json 
{
       "SPRequest" : {
          "xrelease" : "13038",
          "macaddr" : "47:00:11:22:00:30",
          "name" : "localhost",
          "description" : "demo"
       },
       ".submit" : true,
       "class" : "SPRequest",
       "22406" : {
          "win.profile" : "production",
          "win.os_version" : "standard",
          "win.os_part_size" : "1"
       }
}
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Here is the code I am using to create my CSV file:

my $form_data_file_csv = "/tmp/${hostname}_${macaddr}.csv";
# Text::CSV::Slurp wants arrayref of hashref
my $ARoHR = [ \%formdata ];
my $csv = Text::CSV::Slurp->create( input => $ARoHR);
open FH, ">$form_data_file_csv" or die "Could not open $form_data_file
+_csv. :$!\n";
print FH $csv;
close FH;
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But the problem is my CSV file which ends up looking like this:

[red@tools-dev1 psong]$ cat /tmp/localhost_47-00-11-22-00-30.csv ; ech
+o
.submit,22406,SPRequest,class
true,HASH(0x8d81918),HASH(0x8d67980),SPRequest
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What am I doing wrong here?