Re: A brain twister? (how to make 2 lines->1)

[muba]

I assume this is along the lines of what you were looking for?

use strict;
use warnings;

my %ahash=(one=>1, two=>2, three=>3, foo=>'$foo');
print join(", ",
  map { "'$_' => '$ahash{$_}'"} keys %ahash
), "\n";

__END__
'three' => '3', 'one' => '1', 'foo' => '$foo', 'two' => '2'

Addendum: I've chosen to use single quotes for the output rather than double quotes, for the simple reason of keeping the output more or less copy/pastable (of course, copypastability gets lost as soon as a value is actually a reference, but if that is an issue I recommend something like Data::Dumper to you). Consider this template:

use strict;
use warnings;

my %ahash = (
    # PASTE HASH CONTENTS BELOW

);

print "'$_' => '$ahash{$_}', " for keys %ahash;

And you were to put in the output of my above script, it'd nicely print 'three' => '3', 'one' => '1', 'foo' => '$foo', 'two' => '2',. Had I used double quotes for the output of the original script and pasted its result into the template, I would've gotten some bothersome errors.

Global symbol "$foo" requires explicit package name at G:\x.pl line 6.
Execution of G:\x.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

Why are array so much easier to print out than hashes...geez...

I beg to differ. Just remember to read elements in pairs.

use strict;
use warnings;

my %ahash=(one=>1, two=>2, three=>3);
print join(", ", %ahash);

__END__
three, 3, one, 1, two, 2