I have no idea what a "lua" file is, but ...

If you use the wonderful Data::Dumper module, it's very simple to save and restore your data structures from a file. For example: 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

our $phash = {
    "enabled" => "true",
    "honorold" => "true",
    "debug" => "false",
    "questsfull" => "false",
    "tooltipshtml" => "true",
    "lite" => "true",
    "scan" => {
        "inventory" => "true",
        "talents" => "true",
        "honor" => "true",
        "reputation" => "true",
        "spells" => "true",
        "pet" => "true",
        "equipment" => "true",
        "professions" => "true",
        "mail" => "true",
        "skills" => "true",
        "quests" => "true",
        "bank" => "true",
    },
    "ver" => "10500",
    "reagenthtml" => "true",
    "talentsfull" => "true",
};

# Save to a file
my $fh;
my $fname = "data.txt";
open($fh, ">", $fname) or die "Cannot write to '$fname' ($!)\n";
my $d = Data::Dumper->new([$phash], ['phash']);
print $fh $d->Dump();
close $fh;
                                                                      
+          
# Time passes ...

# Make the hash null, to verify that it's read from the file correctly
$phash = 0;
printf "Results of hash = %s\n", Dumper($phash);
                                                                      
+        
# Read back the file
do $fname;
printf "Results of hash = %s\n", Dumper($phash);

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Note the usage of our $phash, so that the $phash = ... in the output file will be in the same scope as the version of $phash which is in the script.

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In reply to Re: Help with making a string into a hash by liverpole
in thread Help with making a string into a hash by Anonymous Monk

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