I have a CGI scipt that is going to have two hashes of hashes and two hashes of arrays of data stored on the computer. It needs to get that data in each time it runs and occasionally save things.

Anyway. In the last version of this script I was reading from and printing to text documents in a rather inefficient way. Today I came across mention of the Data::Dumper module. It sounds like it would be incredibly useful, but I was confused by the man page (probably because I've never used objects, or modules for that matter.)

If anyone could tell me just how to get my hashes out using this and how to get them back in again it would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Cayenne

In reply to basic Data::Dumper by cayenne

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