Storable seems to just put things into a disk file, or am I missing something? I don't want to use disk if I can avoid it.

I'm not sure how I could use YAML. I looked at the link, but it isn't clear to me exactly how it works. Is there a way to convert a standard array into YAML and then send it through the pipe? Would the pipe see the YAML type as a string type? If so, how?

Thanks!

From the Storable documentation:

use Storable qw(freeze thaw);

# Serializing to memory
$serialized = freeze \%table;
%table_clone = %{ thaw($serialized) };
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Hope this helps.

antirice    
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Thank you! This worked when I resized the Pipe buffer large enough to contain the array!!!

Thanks!--Problems remain.

I tried the freeze/thaw cycle, but I got the error "Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference" when trying to thaw. The code is below:

use Storable qw(freeze thaw);

my @Array={};
@Array = @{ thaw( $Pipe->Read() ) );
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Any further ideas?