On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Dr.Ruud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>  > I need to serialize an perl object to STRING TEXT,
>  > not scalar
>
>  Printing (the value of) a scalar, gives you a string.
>  See `perldoc -f sprintf`.
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Unfortunately the freeze subroutine from Storable outputs a binary
blob that is not particularly useful to anything but the thaw
subroutine from the same module:

perl -MStorable -le 'print Storable::freeze({ foo => 1, bar => 2 })'

Hence the need for Data::Dumper, YAML, etc.

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Chas. Owens
wonkden.net
The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read.

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