title: Is there a builtin "hash to string" in Perl?
body: <p>I'm coming to learn Perl from a Python background where the following hash-to-string conversion is built in to the language:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; d = {'a': 1, 'b': 2, 'c': 3}
  &gt;&gt;&gt; str(d)
  "{'a': 1, 'c': 3, 'b': 2}"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a builtin and/or module that has a subroutine with output along the lines of:</p>
  
  <pre><code>"('a' =&gt; 1, 'b' =&gt; 2, 'c' =&gt; 3)"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Strangely, a web search for <code>perl "hash to string"</code> doesn't turn up anything along the lines I'm looking for. Thanks!</p>