Because here's my real problem:

sub genHash {
    my $hashn = shift;
    return "\%$hashn = (\n" . join(",\n", 
    map {
        $key = $_;
        "'$key' => " . 
        (ref $$hashn{$_} ? 
            '{' . join(",\n", map {
                "'$_' => qq~" . safeTilde($$hashn{$key}->{$_}) . '~'
            } keys %{$$hashn{$key}}) . '}'
        :
            'qq~' . safeTilde($$hashn{$key}) . '~'
        )
    } keys %$hashn) . ");\n";
}


sub safeTilde {
    my $code = shift;
    $code =~ s/\~/\\~/g;
    return $code;
}
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then you would call it by genHash(\%somehash)

though it does work, it's just is a little long and messy..

Oh, by the way, it takes a hash and generates the perl to re-create it :)

Edit kudra, 2002-05-27 s/pre/code