use Storable; use Time::Local; sub go { my $storeFile = '/db/users.store'; my $usersFile = (); if ( -e $storeFile ) { $usersFile = retrieve( $storeFile ); } # Do stuff and return me a precious overview of all my userids and their timestamps # # userid | timestamp # 1337 | Fri Dec 16 12:11:43 2022 # 1234 | ri Jan 20 09:21:36 2023 # ... }