I am curious as to why you would suggest using a hash instead of a namespace. Is there a performance or security reason for changing it, or is it just a personal preference thing? There is a great deal of code already written using this method, so I wouldn't want to change it without cause. However, if there is a reason that it should be changed, I would definitly like to know! I was able to find a work-around, so my implementation is functional.

I decided to use Data::Dumper instead of Storable for a couple of reasons. With another project, I had to rebuilt a lot of data after upgrading to a newer release of Perl that was not backwards compatible with the preious version of Storable. Also, I occasionally need to view and edit the information stored, and that is just easier with code that has been dumped.

Thank you for the reply!

In reply to Re^2: Strange error dumping tainted data by zealot
in thread Strange error dumping tainted data by zealot

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