I'm trying out Damian Conway's Persistence.pm module (page 409 Object Oriented Perl). I just need the course-grained persistence to store a hash of objects. It stores the data structure fine, but it doesn't load the data the next time the script runs. Does anyone have any experience with this module? 
use vars qw( %Courses );
use Persistence "Assignments.dat";

...

END { persistent '%Courses'; }

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cheers, (Going back to run some tests I should have done last week)

Update: Ack! solved problem. Solution in the reply. I just needed some time away from the problem, although writing a test case would have focused my thinking.

perl -e 'print qq(Just another Perl Hacker\n)'

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