Re: Portable datastore formats in core perl?

If it is only data that you are trying to port form one machine to an other, I will suggest a simple coma delimited flat file.

data1,data2,date,number,etc ....
data1,data2,date,number,etc ....
data1,data2,date,number,etc ....
data1,data2,date,number,etc ....

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Re^2: Portable datastore formats in core perl? by rastoboy (Monk) on Jul 28, 2010 at 21:40 UTC
Thanks for that. I probably should have been more clear--I am indeed talking about a complex datastructure.	[reply]
Re^3: Portable datastore formats in core perl? by afoken (Chancellor) on Jul 28, 2010 at 21:59 UTC
JSON, XML, YAML, ... Storable needs the same version of Storable on all machines, and I think it also needs the same byte order on all machines. You could also use SQLite (via DBI / DBD::SQLite). Data::Dumper and string eval doesn't sound that good, it opens a hole that I would like to keep closed. Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]