Hello davebaker,

probably I missed the point but if you are programming in perl I do not see the complexity using Storable. Anyway first of all take a look to a recent thread: Banal Configuration Languages

That said you can have a lot of options beside Storable. The basic Data::Dumper dumps structures that can be eval -ed to have the datastructure back.

If you like more human readable solutions there is YAML or the very common outside perl world JSON

I used something like perl -MYAML -MStorable -e "print Dump @{retrieve ($ARGV[0])};" and perl -e "use YAML (LoadFile); use Storable qw(nstore); @ar = LoadFile($ARGV[0]); nstore(\@ar, $ARGV[1])" to translate YAML and Storable formats.

A plethora of Config::* modules are also available.

You can have comma separated data, in external files but also after the __DATA__ token.. So.. many many options for every taste.

HTH

L*

There are no rules, there are no thumbs..
Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.

In reply to Re: Persistent data structures -- why so complicated? by Discipulus
in thread Persistent data structures -- why so complicated? by davebaker

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