How can I pretty print a PersistentHashMap in Clojure to a string?

Question

How can I pretty print a PersistentHashMap in Clojure to a string? I am looking for something like:

(str (pprint {... hash map here...})

which

Answer 1

This should help:

(clojure.pprint/write {:a 1 :b 2} :stream nil)

according to clojure.pprint/write documentation

Returns the string result if :stream is nil or nil otherwise.