Hi all.

I'm trying to read in a hash reference dumped to a file with Data::Dumper via an eval with no success. After much frustration I've discovered this works fine in the debugger, but not in the code. I was hoping someone could explain why.

I know there are better ways to do this (Storable, etc.) but I need a plain text version of the data and, more importantly, I'd like to know why this happens differently in the debugger. 

  
#perl v5.10.1

my $testdata;
open(DATA, "<filename") or die $!;
{
    local $/;
    $DB::single=1;
    $testdata = eval <DATA>;
}
close DATA;

#testdata will be undefined

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However, when using the debugger: 
DB<2> $testdata = eval <DATA>;
DB<3> x $testdata
#outputs the expected data

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Thanks for your time.

In reply to Reading in a dumped hash reference works in the perl debugger but not in the code. by Anonymous Monk

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