Hello bansalam,

Expanding on what Corion said, here's the part where you need some form of serialization since this is boils down to communication between two different (or nearly same - how you look at it) cultures.

JSON is certainly one way to serialize data between two different programs, there are others too. For example, XML, YAML and Google's protocol buffers are all valid solutions. You can even write out the Java HashMap to a text file(HashMap's toString() should help) and read from that file using perl. Of course, there are modules available on CPAN for every one of these formats. JSON, YAML and Google::ProtocolBuffers come to mind.

Pick the simplest and get to work. Have fun! :-)

In reply to Re: COnvert java hashmap to perl hashes by robby_dobby
in thread COnvert java hashmap to perl hashes by bansalam

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