Ok, i use data dumper to put a lot of data into a text field in my database and this has been working well for several months now but then today it stopped working. I didn't change anything and no one else is sopposed to have access to my server...
It seems like it's not putting quotes around strings for some reason. anyways i have to problems now. 1 fixing it so it doesn't do this anymore and 2 fixing all the broken records that no longer eval (several thousand of them)
(A shortend version of what it's outputting)
$VAR1 = {building => { production => [0,75], current => Construction Y
+ard }, heard => Had a Previous Acount , spells => {}, email => creato
+rNOSPAM @ operamail.com , };

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In reply to Data Dumper not outputting valid perl? by kael

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