I am creating a script for a company. It is going to be run on an NT server with active Perl on it. I have no access to this server to add the Storage.pm onto it.
I am trying to save a hash to a file then read it back exactly the same. 

#this is only one line.  I split it to fit on the page
$newLine = "<B><font color=$color>$topic</B>:$Timeis<BR>$posting<BR>--
+By
$person<BR><BR><!-- $postip --></font>\n";


#This is what I have to read the file into my hash
if( -e "joe.txt"){
    open(MYFILE, "joe.txt");
    $mysize= -s MYFILE;
    read(MYFILE, $mypage, $mysize);
    close(MYFILE);
    
    #I also just tried %hash = $mypage;
    @myarray = split /\n/, $mypage;
    foreach (@myarray){
        %myhash = split /=>/, $_;
    }
}

#This is how I add to my 
$myhash{$timestamp}=$newLine;

#this is how I write out.
open(TESTFILE, ">$file2");
foreach (keys %myhash)
    {
        print TESTFILE "$_=>$myhash{$_}";
            #this is for debugging
            print "$_=>$myhash{$_}";
    }

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I think it might be something that I am not doing right but I can not see it. I have the => to separate each key from the value because of the spaces and \n s in the value. I have been pounding my head on my desk trying to get this to work. I am open to any and all suggestions with this.

Thanks for any information.

--Big Joe

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