#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Storable;

# You'll get it via XMLin, I just hardcoded some data
my $data = { foo=>'bar', bim=>'bam' };

store $data, 'MyFile.data';

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#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Storable;
use Data::Dumper;

my $ref = retrieve('MyFile.data');

print Dumper($ref);