Although your problem has already been solved, I would suggest using Data::Dumper for debugging instead of trying to make sense of the binary data you get when Storable serializes your variable. Data::Dumper serializes variables into a human readable format. Since you aren't all that familiar with Perl you may have still been confused, but you would have started with an easier question - something like, "How do I turn a hash into a FuncAssociateData, and what does 'bless' mean?", which would not have relied on Abigail's uncommon insight to answer...