I have been trying to restore output from data dumper, with absolutely no luck. I believe that i have followed the cpan documentation EXACTLY, and am getting nowhere. Here is a trivial program ive written that doesnt work as advertised: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

{
    my $hashref = {
        "aaa"   =>  1,
        "bbb"   =>  2,
        "ccc"   =>  3,
    };

    print "hashref : " . Dumper($hashref);

    my $dumped = Dumper($hashref);
    print "Dumped: $dumped\n";

    my $restored = eval $dumped;
    print "restored: " . Dumper($restored);

    my $test_2 = eval(Dumper($hashref));

    print "test_2: " . Dumper($test_2);
}

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And here is the output:
hashref : $VAR1 = {
          'ccc' => 3,
          'bbb' => 2,
          'aaa' => 1
        };
Dumped: $VAR1 = {
          'ccc' => 3,
          'bbb' => 2,
          'aaa' => 1
        };

restored: $VAR1 = undef;
test_2: $VAR1 = undef;
Now from all the documentation ive read, both $restored and $test_2 should contain copies of the original $hashref, but dont. Any insight would be great.

Of course it could just be that step 2 of the underpants gnomes plan was to lobotomize me!

In reply to Data::Dumper and eval by shemp

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