I'm aware of the situation with $VAR1, that's why I cautioned the OP to look at the contents of the file to see what perl is being asked to evaluate. That's one of the reasons why I use Storable instead of Data::Dumper; if I'm stuck with having to use D::D for some reason then I use the two-argument version of Dump so that I can control the names of the LHS variables in the dumped string, and then when I restore I rely on the dumped assignment. E.g., in the storing code: 

print $out Data::Dumper->Dump( [ \%hash ], [ '*dict' ] );

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and in the retrieving code: 
my %dict;
eval $dumped_string        # initializes %dict
  or die $@;

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the lowliest monk

In reply to Re^3: Need Example of Saving and Retrieving Hash from File by tlm
in thread Need Example of Saving and Retrieving Hash from File by EchoAngel

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