in reply to On Sharing perl data structures

There are various IPC mechanisms in Perl. See perlipc.

What it looks like you want is a way to serialize the data structure, save it to a file, and get it from another program later on. There are a few CPAN modules for that. Storable.pm seems to be the most popular.

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