$ perl -MStorable -le 'print $Storable::VERSION, " ", $^V' 2.25 v5.10.0 $ perl -MStorable -le 'store { x => qr/x/ }, "/tmp/x"; $x = retrieve "/tmp/x"; print $x->{x}' Regexp=SCALAR(0x10082e9f0) $ perl -MStorable -le 'store { x => qr/x/ }, "/tmp/x"; $x = retrieve "/tmp/x"; print qq{!${$x->{x}}!}' !!