Storing hash with key & value in a file

kpsinha has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: Storing hash with key & value in a file by Discipulus (Canon) on Dec 16, 2014 at 09:30 UTC
hello kpsinha what have you tried? have you explored core modules or alternatives to store Perl data structures on filesystems? Better the question better the answer, possibly. L* There are no rules, there are no thumbs.. Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Storing hash with key & value in a file by Discipulus (Canon) on Dec 16, 2014 at 10:12 UTC
As said in the chat, if you need to modify the text dumped to the file adding some given text, probably you need to do it by hand: open a file to write to, cycle on (sorted?) keys of such hash and print what you had to print to file. L* There are no rules, there are no thumbs.. Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Storing hash with key & value in a file by tune (Curate) on Dec 16, 2014 at 10:58 UTC
Some people prefer JSON to do this. -- tune	[reply]
Re^2: Storing hash with key & value in a file by CountZero (Bishop) on Dec 16, 2014 at 13:21 UTC
I am more in favour of YAML. CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James My blog: Imperial Deltronics	[reply]
Re: Storing hash with key & value in a file by vinoth.ree (Monsignor) on Dec 16, 2014 at 10:04 UTC
Hi, Check Storable module. Example: `use Storable; store \%hash, 'filename'; $hashref = retrieve('filename');` [download] This code stores the `%hash` into filename, the last line retrieves the stored hash from the file. if you wanted a hash instead of a hash reference, wrap the "retrieve" call in side `%{}` `my %original_hash = %{retrieve('filename')};` *All is well*	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Storing hash with key & value in a file by CountZero (Bishop) on Dec 16, 2014 at 13:19 UTC
Dumping a hash-variable to a file is easy and some suggestions have already been made. However, you want to dump the content of the hash and add some comments to each value. That is not so simple and before we can even think how to approach this, you will need to explain where those comments are found. Are they in another hash or array or file or database or are they perhaps "calculated" on the fly? CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James My blog: Imperial Deltronics	[reply]
Re: Storing hash with key & value in a file by locked_user sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Dec 16, 2014 at 13:19 UTC
FYI: A few years ago, I had “unexplained problems” with Storable, in which it successfully stored nearly all, but not all, of my records. I therefore quickly switched to JSON, and during the course of the project found it quite advantageous to be able to easily look at what a particular record contained. This was a number of years ago, so it might have been fixed now, and in any case I never did piece together what the bug in Storable might have been. (Nothing to do with Unicode or any of the other “usual suspects ...” It just stored it but then couldn’t retrieve what it had stored. I haven’t used the module since.)