Hello Monks,
I have program 1 which runs, creates a hash based on some calculation and programs ends.
I have program 2 which runs after program 1, but needs to access the hash created by program 1.
What is the best way to achieve this in perl? I do not have database to store values, but I can use out file. The hash that needs to be shared is not straight forward.

e.g. Hash
my %test_hash = ('a1' =>{'abc' => 1.2,
                         'abd' => 2.3,
                         'acd' => 4.5}
                  'b1' =>{'xyz' => 2.2,
                          'xya' => 4.5,
                          'mng' => 10.3}
                 )

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I am not sure how do I go about writing this type of hash to a out file and read the file to rebuild hash in the second program.
Appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Stan

In reply to Caching or using values across multiple programs by stan131

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