For those that asked: the rationale is that I want an easily generalisable way of setting values in my program. E.g. a form input of foo__bar=whatever should result in $foo->{bar} = "whatever".

I think it is fairly secure: you can set variables but you can't execute anything.

Now equally, I don't always want to convert my variables to the appropriate string by hand. I want a quick method of changing $foo->{bar} to "foo__bar", so I can write 

use CGI;
print hidden( -name => struct_to_string($foo->{bar},
   -value => $foo->{bar}
);

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.. and do that for lots of variables.

Ysee?

update: Some guys suggested Data::Dumper or FreezeThaw. That does seem obvious, but these things are also mostly for storing the data in a variable, not the name of the variable - e.g. Data::Dumper dumps stuff as $VAR1, and FreezeThaw freezes the value but not its name! but maybe I should put all the values I want to change into a big hash and then reference into it with Data::Dumper.

dave

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