First of all, I would question why you are using Data::Dumper at all, as there are formats that lend themselves to serialization a bit better, like JSON, YAML, or XML. If you could explain a bit more about what you need this for, and also show an SSCCE so we could see the problem for ourselves, we could maybe suggest a better solution.

The traditional way to convert the output of Data::Dumper back into Perl data is using eval.

However, the following can pose a large security risk as eval will execute any code you give it!

use open qw/ :std :utf8 /; # for printing to console

my $data = q{ "Nach R\x{fc}cksprache mit" };
print "<$data>\n";
my $str = eval $data;
print "<$str>\n";

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One way one might try to lower the security risk is Safe, but configuring that is a bit tricky, and it is still possible to accidentally leave a door open for an attacker.

In reply to Re: convert encoding by haukex
in thread convert encoding by rumpumpel1

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