To elaborate on the unhelpful answer, output from Data::Dumper looks something like this:

$VAR1 = {
          'stuhl' => 'wecker',
          'tisch' => 'teppich',
          'bett' => 'bild'
        };

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Let's say you've put that in a file named, helpfully, file1. Assuming there's nothing too weird in there, you can load it up and "convert it to binary" with Storable like so:

use Storable;
do 'file1';
store $VAR1, 'file2';

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You now have a "binary file" named file2. Let's see what's in there.

>less file2
"file2" may be a binary file.  See it anyway? y
pst0^D 12345678^D^H^H^H^C^C^@^@^@
^Fwecker^E^@^@^@stuhl
^Dbild^D^@^@^@bett
^Gteppich^E^@^@^@tisch

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Some words from the original file, and some binary gunk. But I doubt that helps you very much, so, to repeat roboticus, what do you want to do with this?

In reply to Re^2: Hash File to Binary ? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Hash File to Binary ? by zak_s

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