Here's a link you may find helpful in this regard:: RE: Data::Dumper (Adam: Sample Usage). (I found that by searching on "Data::Dumper" by the way)

A different, but nice and fast, solution would be to use Storable and its freeze and thaw methods. Storable is pretty good at storing and retrieving complex data structures into and from files.

HTH!

perl -e 'print "How sweet does a rose smell? "; chomp $n = <STDIN>; $r
+ose = "smells sweet to degree $n"; *other_name = *rose; print "$other
+_name\n"'
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