in reply to RE: Hash-to-string
in thread Hash-to-string

But beware of MLDBM when attempting to store things that exceed the DBM's limitation, like 2K for SDBM. Can really ruin a day. Also, MLDBM wants you to always change the top level hash to a completely new value. If you replace something lower, you'll never see it in the data structure.

Because of these limitations, I prefer using Storable to throw the entire thing into a file on my demand, rather than try to manage the top level piecemeal.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker