Dear fellow Monks,

I've ran into a problem with the Storable module, which looks like a bug. Whenever I do a "freeze" after a failed "thaw", Storable will balk with a "bad hash" error coming from within it.

Try the following code, which will work, and then remove the commented out bad thaw and see if it fails on your setting. I run this with the latest Storable (1.011) and Perl 5.6: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use Storable qw(freeze thaw);

my $thaw_me = 'asdasdasdasd';

#eval {
#    my $thawed = thaw $thaw_me;
#};
#if($@) {
#    warn "there was a THAWING error\n";    
#}


my %to_be_frozen = (foo => 'bar');
my $frozen;
eval {
    $frozen = freeze \%to_be_frozen;
};

if($@) { die "error while freezing: $@" }

print "it froze it\n";

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Thanks in advance for any help on fixing this.

Brother Greg

In reply to Storable bug? by gregorovius

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