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in thread Send/receive array through IO::Socket?

I forgot to mention that this is on a server I don't own, and getting modules installed is possible, but very difficult... So much so that I'd rather remain ugly than go through the process of getting another module. :-)

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Re^3: Send/receive array through IO::Socket?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 01, 2005 at 20:41 UTC
    YAML is Pure Perl, so you don't need any special permissions or tools to install it. But if you still want an alternative, I once wrote a simple but efficient serializer/deserializer. You'll need to add something to know when you've reached the end of the structure.