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in reply to Printing an Hash

This should keep all of your indentation, though Im not aware of how you want it printed out, so I just put each key and value on a newline

use v5.14; my %hash = (' key' => 'value ',"\tkey2" => "value2\t"); open(FILE,'>>','filename') or die "$!"; while ( my($key, $value ) = each(%hash)){ print "$key\n$value\n"; print FILE "$key\n$value\n"; } close FILE;